Word: bunches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned out, Monterrey did not need the tight pitching of Torres in the Series. The determined youngsters became a bunch of pint-sized sluggers, walloped Pearl Harbor 11-5 as Torres pitched a one-hitter, then whipped Connecticut's Darien team 11-5. In the finals against Kankakee, Ill., Torres got plenty of early batting support. Andrés Galvan, the 65-lb. shortstop, homered over the center-field fence in the second inning, and Monterrey had six runs before Kankakee even got a base runner. Torres had a no-hitter for four innings, a shutout for five. Backed...
...televised blurbs, so understated at first that it was sometimes hard to tell what was being advertised, are now couched largely in such hard-sell terms that they seem downright un-British. But there is still an undertone of restraint; e.g., amidst a bunch of filmed interviews with housewives who swear by a detergent called Omo, the British admen have included one housewife who candidly states that she does not use Omo, has no intention of ever trying it. Makes it seem more authentic, they explain...
With all the barefooted kids, the moonshine, the crawling alligators, the cussin' and fightin' Harrises, Yankee sportswriters were a happy bunch, and Roy Harris began to sound as though he might be a fair country fighter-at least good enough to challenge the so-so Patterson. Happiest of all was TelePrompTer President Irving Kahn, who wants to sell 500,000 theater seats across the nation to cash in on his deal of an exclusive closed-circuit TV show of the Patterson-Harris fight, now seems in a fair...
...demonstrates that facts cannot minister to a diseased mind. He knows his bad days, when there is "no weather," a haunting waking and sleeping dream in which he is deprived of contact with the natural world. When Horner re-establishes contact with people, it is through the "pretty dedicated bunch" at Wicomico. Here he discovers his true calling, of an absolute rather than a theoretical nihilism...
Jimmy Giuffre's The Pentatonic Man. In last week's concert, the band started stiffly, and the rhythm section never got completely untracked; but by the time they closed the set, the European cats were playing with the cohesive drive of a bunch of much-practiced pros...