Word: ricochet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRANK TEPEDINO. You don't remember him? Aw c'mon! Tommy Tresh, hell, he even made Rookie of the Year. No? Duke Carmel, the next DiMaggio, or Bobby Murcer, the next Mantle? Horace "Hoss" Clarke, keystone man fielding like a keystone--ricochet off the chest and take it from there--him neither? But you remember Ralph Houk, kicking the dirt; it sticks in your mind, an emblem of an era of frustration...
...writer's identities, but I had assumed, and now I know mistakenly, that the personality which spoke through those stories would be incapable of speaking to me as she did--would be incapable of seeing me as nothing but a black, a baseboard off of which to ricochet her clumsy ideological balls...
...earlier missions established, even the simplest tasks on earth can become extremely complicated in zero-G. When the astronauts tried to eat, for instance, they found that spoons fly off at the slightest touch and salt grains ricochet everywhere; food bags break, scattering their contents, and slices of bread float frustratingly out of reach. Even when they dug into some soft canned tomatoes, the astronauts created a mess; Conrad noted that he was "flinging tomatoes all over the place." Indeed, they had to spend up to 90 minutes each day on simple housekeeping chores...
...described as benevolent parental interference or, as her father Lee (a freelance writer in Van Nuys, Calif.) calls it, "maverick management." When Dylana (named after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas) was eight and learning the Mendelssohn concerto, her teacher ruled that she was not ready to master the ricochet technique (bouncing the bow on the strings) required in the work. Her parents decided otherwise. "Dylana knew from listening to records of the concerto what was right and wrong," says her mother Ana, a former schoolteacher who takes care of Dylana, Brother Kevan, 14, Sister Vicky, 13, and Brother Ivan...
...Ricochet Romance...