Word: battered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seviets "neither submissive nor truculent," and further declared that the armaments race now in progress must be immediately stopped though "a revision of the United Nations giving it real control power." Robert Koblitz expressed faith in the motives of the Kremitu, while Joseph Clearly denounced 'expansionist policies and Raymond Batter adopted a midway position pointing out the shortcomings in the courses being pursued by both governments at the present time...
...characteristic Leo Durocher play: a combination of hunch and maneuver. The Dodger manager figured that by starting right-hander Branca he would draw the Cardinal left-handed hitting power into the lineup; then he would switch, after one batter, to a well-warmed-up lefty. But Branca blew down the lead-off man with such an assortment of stuff that Durocher decided to leave him in a while. Nine innings later, 20-year-old Branca had struck out nine Cardinals, given up only three hits, beaten the Cards 5-0 and reduced Brooklyn's rabid cheering section to happy...
...played hunches and hustle all season. If the mood came over him, he would take out a batter who already had two strikes on him, put in a pinch hitter Says he: "I just get a feeling." He kept his bullpen in a stew: sometimes, against a single batter, he deliberately used one pitcher for a fast ball, another for a curve. For 15 weeks, with only about four first-rate men (Ed Stanky, Peewee Reese, Dixie Walker and Pete Reiser), Durocher had held the Dodgers at the top of the league. It was a great performance, worthy of making...
...Mexican gold rush was no El Dorado. U.S. ball players, who started the season playing the fancy kind of ball Boss Jorge Pasquel paid them for, by last week were looking pretty sad. The league's leading batter (.383) was Cuba's Claro Duany; and the only high-priced U.S. batsman who was close was ex-Giant Nap Reyes (.375). Onetime major leaguers Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers...
...batter's box this summer-has been Bill Harford. William has hung up a cool .400 average for the summer and leads the Crimson RBI department with five...