Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Crosby, throwing nothing but fast balls in his short stint on the mound, got the first batter to fly to Foynes, the next to ground to White, and the last to hit back to him. It would have been an impressive performance for the best of relievers, not to mention one who had never toed the rubber before...
Exeter teams stress accurate passing and control of the ball on the ground. They are well-drilled on extra-man plays and are accordingly dangerous. A rock-ribbed defense led by veteran Lou Browning gives Captain Dave Peck, all-New England goalie, solid protection...
Author Dobie calls Lilly a "brutal exterminator" of Western wild life who somehow believed hunting to be his "patriotic duty." He preferred to sleep on the ground even when a bed was available, and carried no food except some meal and corn into the wilderness with him. In winter he wore three or four wool shirts at a time; to keep them clean enough to suit him, he merely rotated them from skinside to outside, let the elements launder them...
...midnight, Thursday. Two Cambridge residents, George Weaver, 20, of 200 Brattle Street, and George Milanco, 24, of 20 Oxford Street were walking through the Cambridge Common when two men attacked them from behind. Weaver's suit coat was pulled over his head. He shouted, he was knocked to the ground by the assailants. When he get up his wallet was missing, and the men had gone...
Weaver immediately ran for the police. When they returned to the scene of the crime they found the wallet, money inside, lying on the ground. Police conjectured that the bandits were scared away...