Word: spheroidal
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...pitching was nearly flawless, with the exception of Engineer starter Dave Yauch. Yauch handed the contest to Harvard in the first inning, as he had problems (to say the least) finding the strike zone. The junior Engineer's trajectory was faulty as he launched the spheroid erratically toward the first three Harvard batters, walking Ed Durso, Jimmy Thomas and Leigh Hogan...
Once a lad from Exeter ventured to ask me, Where did Handball originate? Why, I said, the most neolithic of our ancestors could hardly have resisted the impulse to bounce the nearest spheroid off the nearest rock face. If you had given him a racket, he would have burned...
Before the Royals had gotten the spheroid luke-warm, Carl Yastrzemski put the ball in the pocket of a lucky fan in Section 12. Yaz put a second ball into retirement in the eighth...
...with priceless relic-or a showcase of industrial diamonds at Tiffany's. Unfortunately, the sample contains no more than a few grams of the gray dust, and without a microscope to reveal the amazing green, brown and white colors of the individual glass shards or the weird dumbell and spheroid shapes of the gray glass beads, it looks like so much beach sand...
...epochal performance started innocently enough, as Willig totalled 450 after his first two balls. But the third ball was sheer poetry. The sandy-haired senior lit all four bumpers almost immediately, caromed the silver spheroid against the century target several times, and made brilliant saves repeatedly. When the smoke had cleard, Willig had surpassed 1900 points -- and everyone at Tommy's lunch knew he might be seeing history in the making...