Word: unstrung
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Figueroa, who had been having trouble getting his breaking stuff over, then came completely unstrung, giving up a two-run single to light-hitting Frank White. That blow made the score 5-0 and sent "Senor Stopper" to the showers...
...campaign for himself, that the best tactic to hide the lockjaw of his shrinking genius was to become the personality of our time." Fitzgerald, on the other hand, was not much of a self-promoter He even seems to have taken a sad pleasure in his role as the unstrung harp of the jazz age. "I talk with the authority of failure-Ernest with the authority of success," he wrote in his Notebook. His difficulties with alcohol and his desperate need to duplicate his youthful successes often drew harsh responses from his old friend Hemingway. In a letter to Maxwell...
...confused. Which of the gleaming new products will convert a peashooter serve into a Roscoe Tanner cannonball? Will the weekend buff find Chris Evert's steady groundstrokes in a $69 graphite frame by Yamaha, or is the operator so poor that the tool required is a $200 (unstrung) Aldila Cannon? The questions are important because the racquet is "an extension not just of arm but of self. Between points, a player can often be seen fondling a racquet that has served him well. A few bad shots, and it will bear the brunt of self-abasement...
...another. Inner conflicts occur, however, when subconscious primitive urges (read id) and value systems (read super ego) clash. A player about to realize a "forbidden desire"?from simply winning to smashing a ball at a female opponent?is a player in trouble. There are other divided and ultimately unstrung souls: the man who needs to feel great hostility in order to play hard, but whose conscience tells him that hostility is a bad thing. The woman?these days she is usually over 35?for whom beating her husband or trying to win at all may be a deep...
...married life came unstrung last year, according to friends, when the stormy temper and uncertain moods of Lady Lucan, the former Veronica Duncan, drove him from the house. Some emotional scenes followed, and the judge in charge of the case made their children wards of the court, although they remained at home with their mother...