Word: awful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mantle could also bunt a team to death, because he was that rarest of all ballplayers, a switch-hitting slugger who could outsprint every big man in the league and most of the little men. That combination, plus his aw-shucks, farm-boy manner, made Mighty Mick an instant folk hero. In his first 14 seasons, he led the Yankees to a remarkable twelve pennant victories, won the Most Valuable Player award three times and the triple crown once, in 1956, when he batted .353, slammed 52 home runs and drove in 130 runs. His lifetime mark of 536 homers...
...once Dumas' police chief, bought a dairy farm in Missouri. He knew little about the dairy business, and besides, most of the new calves born on the farm turned out to be male. That was when he opened the shoe-repair shop. Or so Bowen says, in that aw-shucks country manner that seems to thicken when he is working on his shrewdest deals...
...Aw, George, cut the nonsense," said Johnson. "I have to know if we're going to work late...
...Aw, come on! Surely a man who served as president of the Lock Raven P.T.A...
...Aw, come on, California," wailed an editorial in the Montgomery Advertiser-Journal. "Let our people go. Are there not 66,059 patriots among you who will step forward to save the republic-before Alabama collapses through chronic absenteeism...