Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hanging on to a precarious 10-3 lead, the Yardlings entered the inning with Paul Thornton on the mound. In the nightmare that followed the Huskie freshmen scored six runs on one hit, six walks, three wild pitches, and two crucial errors. Harvard could not recover from the disaster in its half of the ninth...
Before coach Nat Harris removed Thornton, the hurler had thrown two wild pitches and given up two walks. Roy Creedon, who took over the dismal situation, added another wild pitch and four walks...
Borges delights in the multiplicity of things; he is fascinated with mirrors because they multiply. A poet cannot pin a thing down for eternity in a single phrase, nor a philosopher force it into a rigid system. Variety must be respected: "Never can my dreams engender the wild beast I long for. The tiger indeed appears, but stuffed or flimsy, or with impure variations of shape, or of an implausible size, or all too fleeting, or with a touch of the dog or the bird...
Sargent, who pitched the first seven innings, picked up his third win of the year against no losses. He gave up three hits and the only Engineer run (on a walk, a fielder's choice, a wild pitch, and an infield single). He struck out 12 Techmen and walked three...
...World's Fair looks as if it had been created by some usually normal person who had taken meascaline and allowed his consciousness to go wild. The world's biggest cheese a (seventeen-ton cheddar) sits near a simulated cigar chimney that blows ten-foot smokerings 150 feet into the air. Near the "Festival of Gas" loom nine life-size dinosaurs, and one display boasts a "university for porpoises...