Word: windup
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Perlman sets, comes into his windup and tosses a meatball that Ankney deposits over the right field fence...
...capita public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi was first.) Friends of the Bush administration are already salivating at the sight of billions in no-bid contracts, and like the reconstruction of Iraq, the money allocated for the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast is liable to windup in useless pet projects or outright malfeasance...
We’re down 5-4, and I notice that it’s already the bottom of the sixth, so I jog to the bullpen and start warming up. I should be focusing on my windup and location, but for some reason I can’t stop reminiscing...
Freshman Rob Nelson (0-2) made his first start for the Crimson (14-14-1), and after retiring the first four Boston College batters, appeared to lose a consistent windup. After giving up a hard-hit single to Eagles’ left fielder Jason Delaney, he couldn’t find his release point. Nelson walked the next three batters, the third forcing in a run. Eagles third baseman Jared McGuire served a single up the middle, driving in two, and Nelson was done...
With each of Schutt’s windups, an array of a dozen or so scouts wound up as well. Guns up, click, back down. Windup, aim, click, down. Their ritual followed the almost tidal flow of Schutt’s delivery, mechanical but calm, as the men with briefcases with stickers bearing Twins and White Sox and Dodgers logos concentrated coolly and fiercely on their scientific exercise...