Wilson said the slingshot tends to bring out the crybaby in otherwise tough running-back recruits.

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Since Mr Seehofer had called Mr Westerwelle a crybaby just weeks earlier, it was a touching reconciliation.

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"I'm a big old crybaby, " Mr. Cleaves said last week.

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"I was a total crybaby out there, " she wrote.

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