Word: grabbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk he once had with Ty Cobb, after DiMaggio's first year with the Yankees. Cobb told him that a good outfielder was crazy to spend 15 minutes a day shagging fly balls once he got in shape: "Don't spend your hitting energy chasing flies. Grab a few and then sit down in a cool, shady spot." DiMag has been conserving his energy ever since. He even seems to conserve it on the playing field...
...Grab Bag. In Paris, police were alerted to watch out for the thief who stole a leather case containing a live, nine-foot python...
...owned by some friends of hers she said she had been given a good description of me and had been instructed to tell me about the opposition movement and the current political situation of terror in Paraguay. Someone in the crowd at the café moved her to grab my arm and hustle me out of the place into a taxi, which we left a block from her home so the destination slip, which taxi drivers have to turn in to the Paraguayan police, would not show her address...
...ease, he's no champion." Pursell was Patton's idol. When the coach suggested that Mel not dance ("It takes the tone out of your legs"), Mel didn't. He forsook swimming and lolling on the beach because Pursell advised him to. Pursell, no man to grab credit, told Patton that everything he knew about track he learned from Dean Cromwell...
...list of oddities (e.g., lapis lazuli, musk, leopard skins) topped by 100,000 yak* tails. It happens that the U.S. is now suffering from a war-born shortage of yak tails, which can't be beat for making wigs and Santa Claus beards. U.S. wigmakers will probably grab them up fast...