Word: clout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...playwright of exquisite diction (Robin Bailey) begins wooing Mary, though his blood seems to be several degrees below room temperature. But she can't wash that ring-finger man right out of her hair, not just yet. Hubby has to burn a theater to a crisp and drunkenly clout his little daughter before his charm begins to evade Mary as thoroughly as it has the playgoer...
...World Series, he bled through his uniform from an abscess on his hip. There is no telling how good a healthy Mickey Mantle might have been. Crippled, he has been good enough to win a triple crown (batting, home runs, RBIs) in 1956, to hit .365 in 1957, to clout 54 homers in 1961, to win the Most Valuable Player award three times, and to spark his team to nine American League pennants-a feat for which the grateful Yankees are currently paying him $100.000 a year...
...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. A little masterpiece of the macabre in which seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead...
...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. In a little masterpiece of the macabre, seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve a religion based on the dead...
...Mother's House, by Julian Gloag. A little masterpiece of the macabre in which seven London youngsters bury their mother in the garden, clout Dad with a poker, and evolve the forms of a religion based on the dead...