Word: hectored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rightfielder answered to Arturo. A guy named Doc was behind the plate. The cleanup batter called himself Hector, and his claim to fame was that he once led the league in grounding into double plays. The whole squad was hitting .212. The program said they were the New York Yankees, winners of five straight American League pennants and 2-1 favorites to make it six in a row. Baltimore Coach Billy Hunter knew better; after all, he used to play shortstop for New York. "Yankees?" snorted Hunter. "They look like the Toledo Mud Hens...
...Clark, who is quoted as having found it "gigantically laughable." Well, maybe. But unlike Candy, the bestselling pornographic novel that passes itself off as a satire on pornography, Drive, He Said is serious as all get out. Most of its fun is unintentional. Thus, in one chapter, Basketball Player Hector Bloom and his chick Olive spend a busy evening nuzzling each other outside a diner, are chased over hill and dale by a Cadillac jammed with knife-wielding apists (strangely, they seem to be baddies), make passionate love to celebrate their escape. Then Hector, "in his last thought before...
...forward to the committee's report asserted that "the request of Harvard students being presented to the Committee on Houses may be compared to King Priam's humble request of Achilles for the body of his slain son Hector...
...dark-bright colors and voluptuous lines that depict the rituals of Haitian life and evoke the mystery, romance and anguish of the enchanting little Creole country. Thirty works by 27 of Haiti's leading primitive painters, including Philome and Senéque Obin, André Pierre, Pauleus Vital, Hector Hyppolite. Through...
...pages, once fined Atlanta newspapers $20,000 for contempt for describing a defendant's past, banned news cameras and tape recorders not only in his courtroom, but also on "adjacent sidewalks and public streets." At 54, Pye is tetchy as a loaded derringer; he is wont to hector witnesses and explode at any moment over what he calls "mongrelization of the races." Trying to be fair to Pye, another Atlanta judge sums up: "He's a fine, decent, honest, hard-working man, except that he happens to be hipped on the subject of race...