Word: rawley
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eighth novel, Mr. Vertigo (Viking; 293 pages; $21.95), Auster again dips into the collective memory bank, offering a hero-narrator made up in part of Twain, Horatio Alger and the Dead End Kids. Walter Claireborne Rawley first appears as a nine-year-old St. Louis street urchin in 1924. Jaded beyond his years, with a side-of-the-mouth style of flip talk ("Well, shave my tonsils"), Walt recalls meeting the mysterious Master Yehudi, the man who would change his life: "We were standing in front of the Paradise Cafe, a slick downtown gin mill." "You're no better than...
...Rawley returned to the ice, and play continued without incident until the second period...
...first period also included one of the more bizarre incidents in Harvard hockey history. At the 17:48 mark, with the icemen still ahead by a slim 2-1 margin, Colgate alternate captain Mike Rawley tripped rightwinger Jon Garrity behind the Red Raider net. The referee skated Rawley to the penalty bench. In a move usually reserved for football coaches, Harvard mentor Bill Cleary apparently refused the penalty...
...Bullpen -- Two strong bullpens are led by Manny Sarmiento (2.06 ERA), Rawley Eastwick (2.08) and Pedro Borbon (3.31) for Cincinnati, and Ron Reed (2.46), Tug McGraw (2.51) and Gene Garber (2.81) for Philadelphia. Although McGraw has postseason experience, Eastwick stands out in this bumper crop of firemen to give the Reds a slim edge in the relief department...
PALMER B. RAWLEY JR. Albuquerque...