Word: clout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lisha could not abide Rome. When a cousin asked Bridie to marry him, she agreed to "turn" Protestant, and Aunt Lisha, delighted, left her everything when she died. But then came Catholic Aunt Rose Anne to invoke the wrath of the church, curse her roundly and give her a clout besides. Poor, sweet, ignorant Bridie, half demented by repeated bouts of intolerance, rushed wildly out of the house, was found dead in a boghole next...
Sportwriters knocked themselves out thinking up new names and superlatives for him: The Sultan of Swat, the Bambino, The Colossus of Clout. He didn't need all that; he was color itself-a fellow built on heroic, swaggering lines, an enormous head on a barrel of a body...
...powerful Crimson polo aggregations of old. But plans are under consideration to build an indoor cage to practice in. Under this scheme the player sits astride a wooden horse and bangs the ball against the sloping sides of the enclosure, which, via gravity, return the pellet for another clout...
...first meeting Harper came in to squelch a Crimson rally in the sixth. Moravec had tripled; Apthrop had pasted a healthy clout into the hands of Hatch, deep in, right field; and "Armie" Essayan had punched out a sharp single to left. Harper came in and, after walking Sullivan, retired the side on weak infield bloopers. He didn't allow another man to reach first base in that game...
Coming after John Coppinger and Mel Allen had flied and bounced out, Wallace's grounder to the left side seemed to end the inning, but the Tufts shortstop fired the ball into the ground, enabling the pitcher to reach second and making way for Closky's game-winning clout...