Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White Sox should not be able to get off the ground. Until a fortnight ago, when they gambled that Pittsburgh's Ted Kluszewski had conquered his bad back and picked up the muscular first baseman on waivers, the White Sox did not have a man who could clout the long ball. The team trails the majors in home runs with a measly 81; team batting average is .252, sixth in the league...
...Ambassador (to Russia); 3) Governor (New York); 4) a man of such towering clout in Washington that former Secretary of State Dean Acheson personally toted his passport application (for a planned trip to Red China) to the State Department for approval. What's more, Harriman had brought along a collaborator almost as impressive: Charles W. Thayer, brother-in-law of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and himself a career diplomat (including four years in Russia) turned freelance writer (Bears in the Caviar, The Unquiet Germans). Thayer's job was to act as combination guide...
When Gay heard that CBS was thinking of a morning hillbilly show, he cut a pilot film of Dean that sold CBS bigwigs. Within two weeks Jimmy Dean had become the first performer in three years to clout NBC in the morning rating war. His fans wrote up to 25,000 letters a week. (Sample: "It's about time the damyankees gave a good country boy a chance...
...labor than Minneapolis (pop. 560,700). Endorsement by the city's Central Labor Union (representing 166 A.F.L. locals, 75,100 members) has all but guaranteed election-day victory since the mid-'40s. But last week, to its pained surprise, the C.L.U. discovered that its political clout was sadly diminished...
Mushroomed Clout. In Milan, Salvatore Cinquegrane, 20, who stepped on a streetcar and squabbled with the conductor, was booked for : 1) not paying, 2 ) hitting the conductor, 3) damaging public property, 4) resisting arrest, 5) disturbing the peace, 6) refusing to identify himself to police, and 7) drunkenness...