Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refrain "from wanton or willful injury." Not any more, said the influential California Supreme Court last month. Reversing a lower court damage-suit decision, it found such categorization of victims obsolete. Henceforth, even a gate crasher who trips over a royal palm stump and fractures his drinking arm will be able to sue with equal protection...
...just two more victories will make him the first 30-game winner since Dizzy Dean turned the trick in 1934. These figures may make Denny baseball's man of the year. In Detroit, they have made him the man of the quarter-century?a civic hero whose strong right arm is pointing the Tigers toward their first American League pennant in 23 long years...
Although his arsenal includes a slider, a medium-speed curve and a jug-handle changeup as well as a fastball?all of which he can deliver either overhand, three-quarter-arm or sidearm?McLain's main assets are speed and control. Cuteness and cunning are foreign to him: he rarely wastes a pitch, and he does not try to sucker batters into swinging at bad balls. "Control is God-given," Denny claims. "Like a good arm. You don't develop it, and I thank God He gave me both." Last month, in a typical McLain display of power and accuracy...
...group of cheering campaign workers, he added: "I may be visibly moved. I have been very careful not to be visibly moved throughout my campaign. If you people keep on this way, I may, as we say, lose my cool." Already, some of his followers were wearing black arm bands and a new campaign button. It was blank...
...hitters. The situation clearly called for a relief pitcher. But the New York bullpen was exhausted after a 19-inning marathon against Detroit two nights before. Then Manager Ralph Houk remembered Colavito. In his years with the Indians, Rocky had nailed scores of base runners with his authoritative throwing arm. On Aug. 13, 1958, Colavito had even pitched three innings of scoreless ball against Detroit...