Word: backstopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Backstop Charlie Walsh literally cleaned up in the cleanup spot, with four hits in five at bats, including a double and a triple. Webb, who with Walsh was the only player allowed to stay in the massacre all the way, got three hits in five tries...
...appropriating for TVA, Congress had refused to include $4,000,000 for a steam generator to backstop TVA's water power in dry seasons. "A reckless and irresponsible decision," said the President, pointing out that TVA supplies power for the Oak Ridge atomic plant. He signed the bill to extend the terms of AEC commissioners for two years, but declared that "the refusal of the Republican leadership to put the public interest first. . . invests the atomic energy program with an aura of uncertainty and partisan politics." (He did not recall that he had set Republican teeth on edge...
...Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing squads...
...Clarke's chores is a daily conference with Editorial Writer Reuben Maury and Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor (who used to get their signals from Patterson). Sitting in with them now is a brand-newcomer, quiet, 44-year-old Donald Thompson, an American Weekly graduate. Clarke hired him to backstop Maury. Thompson expects no trouble in adapting himself to Daily News policies-plugs for the metric system, a world calendar and isolationism, slugs for Russia, the U.N. and prohibition...
Yankee President Larry MacPhail promptly picked McCarthy's successor: William Malcolm ("Bill") Dickey, 38, perhaps the best catcher ever to put on a big-league mitt. He was first-string backstop when McCarthy took over the Yankees in 1931, and was still behind the plate last week. Bill Dickey was a big fellow (6 ft. 3 in.) who seldom had much to say, but a nice way of saying it. His only previous experience as a manager was in the Navy: his club won six straight against the Army in 1945's Service World Series...