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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

...Blowing her nose, she went outside and sat on the grass to watch them play basketball. It must be so nice to be a boy, zipping around on a bike, throw... ...but she couldn’t stop. His energetic body flipping his bike, or arcing the basketball high in the air, or rolling around on the lawn, wres- tling with... ...hold in the pain that evening so long ago when he knocked her down playing basketball, Lacey look- ing at him in wonder when he’d said he would help h...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... or a broom. A few minutes later, two boys came into the terminal. One had a basketball in his hands. The other one stood a few feet behind him. He lo... ...ng Hashimnika, Sonsaeng nim," (Peace you do, teacher), said the one with the basketball. "Uri-tul nun taxi ul sayang hata?" (We taxi to use?) He knew ... ...ould be walking. Still it was his way of saying something. The one with the basketball who could figure it out shook his head. They walked down the s... ...looking into every mom and pop store along the way. "Ilchik tangshin-tul rul basketball ul hayoshimnita kachi?" (Early you basketball did?) The fat bo... ...ers' homes as Sang Huin himself had sat on the bleachers during his sister's basketball games. He saw him taking umbrage with the gods (the sun god in... ...eable ailments and who sat him on bleachers while the family went to JuneチOs basketball games. "June" gave the Korean family a name, and the parents c... ...f how so many years of his life were struck down in silence. Only June, the basketball star, had voice and opinions that could sway the parents. He w...

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The Snakelex Report

By: Christine Jones

...umerous dark brothers had nothing better to do than hang over fences, off basketball rings, incite bullying and watch Stella express her loving ways ... ...r taken back by the stranger’s height. Fred thought he had to belong to a basketball team. Alan amused himself with the thought that he would be han...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...different talents and potentials. If you like sport and are 5 foot 3 you might be a jockey or a wrestler. If you are 6 feet 10 you might be a basket...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...Moses existed, that there is a most effective way to make a free throw in basketball, that the government is corrupt. There are millions of question... ...heaviness of the supra-orbital ridge, the size of the nose or jaw, or the basketball playing ability? ―But it‘s more than just the words we u... ...ace, when tackling or being tackled in football, or when being elbowed in basketball. And parents who spank their children should advise the child t...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...w don’t get me wrong, Barry is not fat as in zeppelin big, more solid and basketball player tall, which just makes him look like he needs to eat a c...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

...t six-foot-four. His boots added another three inches. Wallace said he had been a basketball star at Tulane in the sixties. Guy asked, “Anybod...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...n with perfecting some athletic feat is everywhere in mass culture. Surfers, basketball players, skate boarders and roller-bladers waste years of t... ...les volleyball. You can do this with any single-ball sport: football, soccer, basketball, ping-pong, tennis; and see how much harder it gets; but al... ...onal to begin with. The raised bar of difficulty, whether it is how high the basketball hoop is placed, how high a volleyball net is placed, how fa... ...eapers will be your team to angle the ball into the net. That is better than basketball. But isn’t the goal too big for hands to throw it into the ... ... hundreds of millions of dollars simply because he could dominate the game of basketball, and had more powerful jumping muscles, enabling him to out-... ...ntage of a few inches: selectively developed to be used only in the sport of basketball. He tried to play baseball competitively and failed misera... ...tively and failed miserably because he had trained all his life in developing basketball muscles, and basketball coordination. That is the wasteful... ... Effort? Perseverance? By overcoming difficulties? By success? A famous basketball coach once defined the idea of success as the personal knowl...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... of thought on his father, my son had long since wandered off in search of a basketball game to watch. But I have to admit his question was something ...

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The Peculiar Conundrum

By: Matt R. Erickson

...It wouldn’t take much of a sports enthusiast to realize something was strangely amiss with this “game,” as the rules and terms from soccer, baseball, basketball and football were all intermixed into one bewildering event. And, with millions of die-hard sports fans across America who intricately know every rule and regulation of their favored sport, there is about zero cha...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...hat isn’t any practical use—except the manual training and typewriting and basketball and dancing—and in these cor- respondence-courses, gee, you can ...

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Best of Four

By: Carol Ann Ellis

...is an independent clause: “I like the three most popular sports: baseball, basketball, and bowling.” The sentence—“The three sports I like best are ba... ...ll, and bowling.” The sentence—“The three sports I like best are baseball, basketball, and bowling”— does NOT require a colon. The linking verb “are” ...

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