Word: clobbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...welcome planes on landing or to see them off on takeoffs. Often they fly smack into an airborne craft. They have dived into propellers, smashed against expensive radomes, causing about $300,000 damage a year. Far worse is the ever-present danger that a Midway albatross may someday really clobber a $6,000,000 plane and cause a fatal crackup...
Shedding less useful light than a firefly at noon, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 68, long used to watching his hirelings clobber the Washington Senators, flummoxed singlehanded a different sort of Senator with his favorite weapon: syntax. As a witness before a subcommittee hearing testimony on a bill to exempt baseball from antitrust action, Stengel was asked by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver why the bill should be passed. "Well," said Casey, clarifying things, "you can retire with an annuity at 50, and I further state that I am not a member of that plan. You'd think, my goodness...
...Nelson stories, and some unfamiliar ones. Example: as a midshipman at 14, Nelson found himself on an expedition to the Arctic. He tried to kill a polar bear to get its skin for his father. He missed the beast with his first shot and wanted to clobber it with a clubbed musket...
Just before the bout began, the fighters touched gloves. But after their ritual handshake in Chicago's Stadium, not another friendly gesture marred the festivities. Aging (30) Middleweight Champion Carmen Basilio and aged (37) ex-Champion Sugar Ray Robinson were so eager to clobber each other that they both kept swinging after the first round ended. By the time the referee got between them, everybody in the stadium seemed anxious to pitch...
Indignity of Labor? Adler and Kelso expect economists to "clobber the book," and the possible objections are indeed strong. The scheme to diffuse capital might require more governmental control than the present pump-priming devices that K. & A. condemn. If the prescribed spreading of capital were more or less limited, would it give workers (except in theory) relatively more than they have today under high wage scales? Or, if the redistribution of capital were sizable enough to make a real difference, would there be enough capital concentration for new enterprise? Furthermore, the K. & A. vision of a coupon-clipping mass...