Word: misplayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philadelphia's Dave Johnson then cost Russell, a few thousand on next year's contract by driving in both men who reached base as a result of the misplay, to put the Phils ahead...
...reader vaguely recalls a lovely term for a mirage-something Italianate. He checks Bernstein under "mirage, especially as observed in the Strait of Messina" and finds fata morgana. "Midget or dwarf leads to homunculus. "Ecstasy of a religious nature" brings forth theopathy. "Misstroke or misplay" discovers foozle...
...quite sure, it occurred to me that Harvard hockey coach Cooney Weiland must have called himself Doctor a few times on the way back from Ithaca two nights ago. Because now that B.C. has blown three straight hockey games, and five of its last six, only a flagrant misplay of its cards will deprive Harvard of the home-ice advantage in next month's ECAC playoffs. And the Crimson's first opponent there will be... Boston College. Call Harvard Doctor...