Word: watch
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...every event, there is a favorite. But it is one thing to have the odds point your way and another thing entirely to bestride a sport. Here is a selection of athletes who collect world records the way lesser competitors notch victories. They may have rivals to watch out for, but they have no one to look up to. They are the rulers of the field...
Still, Roth's concern that he is the only one who will care about this book seems unwarranted. It is fascinating to watch a major writer re-examine his life, trying to extricate reality from the tales it later inspired. Sometimes, as he has so often pointed out, the gap between the two proves enormous. Roth describes his Newark childhood in warm, elegiac terms that completely invert the cramped, maddening domesticity endured by Alexander Portnoy: "Our lower- middle-class neighborhood of houses and shops -- a few square miles of tree-lined streets at the corner of the city bordering...
...Just to sit on the ball and watch the seconds tick away was the one play I'll never forget," Hinz says. "I'll probably never forget falling on Tom so we could protect the ball and run out the clock. We had all come so far. We all felt so deserving because of how hard we had all worked...
...weather service issued a hurricane warning for Mexico's northern coast and the southern half of the 370-mile Texas coast from Brownsville to Port O'Connor, including 250,000-resident Corpus Christi. A hurricane watch remained in effect for the remainder of the Texas coast, from Port O'Connor north to Port Arthur near the Louisiana border...
Saturday afternoon, the speedway was a gathering site, a place where shirtless men and bronzed women, crazy kids and old people who congregated in the top row of seats and wore big hats to keep the sun from their eyes, came to watch and cheer...