Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effectively in his homemade shining armor. Last week he had the wit to jail hundreds of astoundingly puny hoodlums on the ground that they imperiled the sanctity of the polls. He announced that he had been forced to "take off the gloves." Tammany, he cried, was controlled, lock, stock & barrel, by Big Gambler Frank Costello, and Pecora was nothing but Costello's mouthpiece...
...southern front, the job of leading the breakthrough from the Naktong went to Lieut. Robert W. Baker, 25, hamhanded, barrel-chested commander of Company C, yoth Tank Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division...
...classes are the same. In his starched white lab coat, with his rimless spectacles twinkling in the light, Haldy lectures quietly. Sometimes he mixes a few snatches of Shakespeare, bits of astronomy or cracker-barrel saws into his chemical formulas. He never raises his voice, but the excitement of his subject gets across...
...result was a deceptively artless poetry of common speech. But behind the apparent artlessness was a cracker-barrel Socrates with a sense of humor-a pawky humor that was partly serious when it seemed most irreverent, gently mocking when it seemed most grave...
What had kept the aged, ailing Yankees in the race? Big, barrel-shaped Veteran Johnny Mize, 37, was one answer. Called up from Kansas City in the spring, he had hit 19 home runs in 68 games. Three other standbys were Sophomore Outfielder Hank Bauer (.341), Shortstop Phil Rizzuto (.330) and Catcher Yogi Berra (.323). They were having the best seasons of their baseball careers...