Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game where the man on the mound will be the significant figure, Ed Wadsworth may well turn out to be the Crimson's answer to Kirby. Though last year he had almost hopelessly poor control, Wadsworth now seems to have overcome this difficulty. Still far from making every pitch a strike, he has, nonetheless, done excellent work in three outings this spring...
When the umpire disallowed this, Meeham rushed to the scene to claim the ball was fair afer all. He soon shifted his ground to the stronger plea that the infield fly rule should be in force and the batter ruled automatically out. The umpire's apparent answer to this was, first of all, that he hadn't invoked the infield fly rule, which is left to his descretion, and secondly, that the rule didn't apply because the ball had bounced foul...
Budding Irony. With the infinite patience of a housewife unsnarling an atrocious tangle of wool, Author Wedgwood shows just how the men of Parliament, aided by the Calvinist Scots, wound up the bright Cavalier cause, captured its fugitive leader and beheaded him. Their answer to flamboyant dash was the sturdy discipline of Cromwell's and Fairfax' "New Model army"; their retort to royal deceit was tough, businesslike cunning-along with an ironhandedness that eventually gave Cromwell the very absolutism he had denied to Charles...
...Oliver may be just a crazy mixed-up cad to the reader, but in a fatuously psychiatrical reconciliation scene, Oliver's father shoulders the blame: "I think perhaps you represented to me the little daughter I never had and always longed for." A Sunnylands Granger would have the answer to that one: "Not bloody likely...
...Million Laws. The law brings out all of man's magnificent mulishness. For centuries, pigs, bulls, dogs and horses were gravely tried and executed if they caused a human death. In 1890 a sardonic Hungarian lawyer left his estate to the relative who could best answer 1) What is eternal and finite on earth? 2) Why do people need money? 3) Why do people carry on lawsuits? Litigation raged for 55 years among his kinfolk; all offers of compromise were rejected; and the case ended only when the estate was wiped out by inflation. The multiplicity of lawsuits...