Word: battering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hold each by the tail while stirring in rich batter, then fry. . . ." The Japs firmly believe that they have the world by the tail, especially when smearing on the rich batter of trade promises to stir up appeasement talk and dangling mythical profits from war materials as bait which we have swallowed hook-line-and-sinker for nine years, ". . . then...
...closes, Old Bo-Bo expects to win 30 games. Last week, only eleven days after he broke his thumb, he defied his doctor's orders, pitched a game against the Athletics. Starting out with his thumb wrapped in adhesive, he pompously ripped the bandage off after walking one batter, proceeded to strike out ten men before being sent to the showers in the eleventh inning with his first defeat since the opening game of the season. Undismayed at breaking his winning streak, Newsom shrugged his massive shoulders, proclaimed: "I'm startin' a new streak right...
Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem-Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners...
...strike, then a grounder, right into Cookie Lavagetto's mitt. Frey came up. A strike, two balls, another strike, another ball. It seemed eternity before the announcer spoke: a fly, high into right field-Cullenbine took it just in front of the bleachers. Then came Goodman, a dangerous batter in a tight spot. The first was high and inside. Then the announcer's voice rose to a deafening crescendo. "Folks it's a no-hitter!" Old Tex Carleton, 33, and recently resurrected from the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers, had mown down the mighty Reds...
...Marguerite, who had gone to Chicago from their farm in Van Meter, Iowa. Ma Feller in years gone by had often "cried her eyes out" because little Bob and his father used to spend so much time behind the barn playing ball. Last week, when the last White Sox batter had been put out, Ma Feller was in tears again, but for a different reason...