Word: tinged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hitters. "1 was able to take advantage of my opportunity," he says, "and I hope LeFlore can too." He had also best take advantage of opposing pitchers: after two weeks with the Clinton Pilots, LeFlore was batting a dismal .125. The ex-con rookie is confident that his hit ting will improve once he overcomes a slight case of nerves and gets accustomed to playing night games. In prison, he explains, the floodlights were not used for baseball...
Grandmother De specializes in winding her 15 clocks and never let ting Egan's mother forget that she mar ried beneath herself. The truth is that outside the hermetic DeWhit family, Egan Fletcher Sr. is a famous professional baseball player. He plays some unspecified position with a club known as the Washington Teutonians, but he is also an overpowering utility father figure. Returning for a stay with his family, he reignites his wife's banked passions and her family's recriminations. Grandfather dies, Egan's sister runs off with the first boy to find...
Reacting to I.R.A. pressure, it has just recently reinvoked legislation permit ting imprisonment of citizens who are merely suspected of terrorist activities...
Moral Growth. At 6 ft. 4 in., Bun ting has what is called "command pres ence." The son of a Haverford, Pa., real estate man, he was expelled from Penn sylvania's Hill School for "general trou-blemaking," and then, at 17, enlisted in the Marines. After two years, he en rolled at Virginia Military Institute, graduated in 1963 as first captain and third in a class of 1 85. He won a Rhodes scholarship and studied modern British history at Oxford, then settled down to a military career...
Carefully examining the white blood cells of 48 healthy people and three leukemia patients, Gallo and two colleagues−Stringner S. Yang and Robert C. Ting of the Bionetics Research Laboratories−discovered a small but possibly critical difference. The white cells of the leukemia victims showed the presence of an enzyme known as RNA-dependent DNA polymerase; the cells of the normal people did not. The presence of the enzyme suggested that it may play a key role in the development of the disease...