Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obverse Recognition. Few do. Even boos that sometimes drift down out of the stands when he comes to bat are compliments, an obverse brand of recognition that the leather-lunged reserve for the good ones. "The booing is not very nice, but it doesn't upset me," says Rocky, whose sincerity still startles his teammates. "I never booed anyone in my life, but as long as they pay, they're entitled to do it. I'm trying to do the best...
...made Lane's new players fizz instead of fizzle was Manager Joe Gordon, the old Yankee second baseman, who had helped Cleveland win the world championship in 1948. Gordon has his high-spirited Indians playing a confident, aggressive brand of ball that is packing the fans into Cleveland Stadium* after years of declining attendance since the 1954 pennant. Backed by a long-ball attack, this whirlwind play has so far made up for mediocre pitching. (FastBaller Herb Score has never recovered his coordination since being hit in the eye with a batted ball...
...were few (or, if many, did not survive). But modern art relentlessly stresses the new. The result is mostly confusion, but also a degree of fermentation. Last week in Manhattan's Greenwich Village a lean, wispy-bearded man with the cheerful energy of a grasshopper was preparing something brand new in sculpture. His suitably improbable name: Len Lye. His sculptures he calls "Tangibles," but they are not meant to be touched. They vibrate...
...canny helmsmanship, learned in a lifetime of small-boat racing ("I've always sailed. I guess") that made him North American sailing champion in 1956. More important, he was famed for setting up a sailmaking business at the age of 22. He developed and wove his own brand of tough fabric from Dacron, which proved so successful that last year he supplied some sails for all four America's Cup candidates, and was a member of Vim's afterguard in the Cup trials...
...Wendy set a new fashion in children's names: and many youngsters believed in Peter's magic so thoroughly that they broke limbs while attempting to fly like him. (In case you are concerned about the latter, Sir James soon announced that one had to have Peter's particular brand of fairy dust in order...