Word: battered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Housing should be speeded up by a $1 billion-a-year federal program, in large metropolitan centers, starting with those which agree to help batter down archaic building codes and labor featherbedding...
Actually, Jackie at bat is most dangerous when the odds are against him. When the count gets to two strikes, as he explains it: "Then I begin to crowd the plate a little." Says Branch Rickey: "He is the best batter in the game with two strikes on him." Pitchers capitalize on his hasty swing by feeding him slow stuff. "I just can't hit those nuthin' pitches," Jackie complains. Because he is the best bunter in the game, the Dodgers "cut him loose" at the plate (i.e., let him decide for himself whether to take...
...fifth inning was another story. The first batter led off with a single. The next two men walked, filling the bases. Harrison then forced the next two batters to pop up, but walked another man. Cliff Crosby then tripled down the first base line clearing the bases and making the score 5 to 4. In their half, the Crimson made it five all with two singles and two walks. The score remained tied until the last of the eight...
...talk of the Southern Association. In an afternoon's double-header with New Orleans, in ten times at bat he hit a home run, three triples, two doubles and two singles. His day's work put him far out in front as the league's best batter, boosted his average to .412 which is 55 points ahead of his nearest rival...
...Manchuria, the Government had 150,000 of its best regular troops, many of them trained and equipped by the U.S. for fighting Japs. They were strong enough to batter the Reds away from the rail lines at Szepingkai this month in a major engagement. But the Government was not getting much out of what it held of Manchuria. The big coal mines were shut down; the harvest could not be moved over transport lines broken by Communists...