Word: balling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need no baby sitter," growled Mickey. Mickey never carries a gun himself, but he has confidence in the carload of heavily armed helpers who follow his Cadillac. Howser's Special Agent Cooper told Mickey's torpedoes to take in a ball game, or something. Mickey was in no position to argue...
...league-leading Dodgers by 2½ games, the Cards moved into Brooklyn for a four-game series. In the first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
...perceptibly. The U.A.W.'s scrappy president is not a man who likes to let George do it-or even Philip Murray. A steel strike sooner or later might have shut down the auto industry; now the auto workers were just where they wanted to be, carrying the C.I.O. ball for a fourth-round increase in U.S. industry. It was a nice forward pass (completed): Murray to Truman to Reuther...
...rare for a southpaw to do so well in tournament play, and he did not get to the finals without incident. In the fourth round Policeman Betger graciously conceded a 12-in. putt to his rival Lewis North of Denver (for a halve), gave the latter's ball a swipe with his putter. Cried North, citing the rule book: "You can't do that-I claim the hole." He got it, too, and Betger had to go 19 holes...
...acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players, including Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead and Frank Morgan, occasionally suggest what the film might have been-but only occasionally. At their worst, even the veterans lapse into the caricature of the fancy-dress ball...