Word: wised
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fired the scrolls of Alexandria To warm the waters of the public baths...". John Wheelwright. "To Wise Men on the Death of a Fool...
From a mechanical how-will-it-affect-the-team-point-of-view, it may not. Psychologically perhaps, but this is the type thing around which teams tend to rally. Performance-wise, Davenport was an adept thrower, but his running was by no means exceptional...
...just no fun anymore. We can't sit around and laugh about George Scott's weight problem, Luis Tiant's ambiguous age, or Rick Wise's Chem-20-like glasses. We can't say "I told you so" about early-season Yankee dissension. All we seem to do is regret all those nights we were glued to Channel 38 instead of a reference book. What does Jim Rice care anyway that we're in Group...
...dismally failed countless numbers of times to get the clutch hits, the come-from-behind runs, and the late-inning rallies that are instrumental for division-winners and were the trademarks of the previous pennant-winning squads of 1967 and 1975. Sure, it's disappointing to see Rick Wise give up eight runs in the first two innings, but when George Scott lets two letter-high fastballs blow by him with a man on third and a tie ballgame, well guys, that's downright excruciating...
...Broadway production of Ulysses in Nighttown, playing Leopold Bloom. In his varied roles onstage and in film-from the hapless movie entrepreneur in The Producers to the man turned beast in Ionesco's The Rhinoceros-Mostel was the master of paradoxes: a graceful fat man and a wise buffoon...