Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forst entered 1998 coming off a .286 pre-playoff campaign in which he played typically sparkling defense at shortstop, but consistently hit out of the nine-hole, managing just 30 hits. The captain worked with a wooden bat all summer, and shot to the five-slot in the order, leading the team in batting average at .406 while setting an all-time Harvard record for hits in a season with...
...hoops history. A high school All-American, Brown decided to attend Harvard, shunning full-ride scholarships at college juggernauts such as the University of North Carolina and UCLA, which was riding high on a tide of nine NCAA championships in 10 years under the legendary coach John Wooden...
...literary skill barely keeps him on top of his material. It can be a spellbinding ride. He is a virtuoso of the lyric description and the free-range sentence, as well as a connoisseur of cantinas and ranch kitchens. A lot of whiskey and coffee goes down and many wooden matches are ignited by horny thumbnails before John Grady Cole and a Mexican pimp named Eduardo square off with knives over the fate of Magdalena...
Three years ago, MILTON JONES was watching a Nightline report on the still unsolved Unabomber case. At the time, investigators were trying to figure out the meaning of the wooden components found in the bombs and the references to wood and other elements of nature in the choice of victims. Jones, then studying American literature at Brigham Young University, theorized that the Unabomber was using a literary device known as juxtaposition. By mailing a bomb to a person named Wood or someone living on Aspen Drive, the Unabomber was saying technology was destroying nature. But by making the bomb partly...
Three years ago, Milton Jones was watching a "Nightline" report on the still-unsolved Unabomber case when he suddenly realized there was a hidden message in the attacks. At the time, investigators were trying to figure out the meaning of the wooden components found in the bombs, and the references to wood and other elements of nature in the choice of victims. Jones, then a graduate student in American Literature at Brigham Young University, theorized that the Unabomber was using a literary technique called juxtaposition. By mailing an explosive device to a person named Wood, or someone living on Aspen...