Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CATCHER BILL DICKEY (202 votes). Dickey played his entire 17-year major-league career with the Yankees (1928-46), hit a lifetime .313, set a major-league record of catching 100 or more games for 13 consecutive years, and was often rated the most dangerous clutch hitter in the Yankee batting order. Said Dickey, now a 46-year-old Yankee coach: "It's sure nice to be up there...
Clutchless Trucks. General Motors Corp. announced that Hydra-Matic drive for heavy-duty trucks will be available as optional equipment for the first time on 1954 models. Drivers will be able to run through eight forward speeds without using a clutch...
...take over the war. The listless fighting of the Bao Dai forces has demonstrated that a guarantee of complete independence within a few years is the prerequisite to raising more troops. By undermining the appeal of the Communist anti-imperialist slogans, this promise would also weaken the Red clutch on crucial Northern Viet-Nam. Not only pride out conscience should compel the French to set up the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can be taught to do for themselves what Europeans have been unable...
...National Press Club, the former General Motors president told of a U.S. Senator who needed a new car. The Senator consulted a General Motors executive, who suggested getting a car with an automatic transmission. Said the Senator: "Well, maybe that would be all right, but when there is no clutch pedal, where do I put my left foot?" Replied the General Motors executive: "Put it in your mouth like my former boss does...
...where Gourmet Bemelmans used to cook his literary schnitzel only with the finest schmalz, some of Father, Dear Father would make even Charles Dickens clutch his stomach and turn pale (e.g., "I wonder," says Barbara, "if Christ came to earth, could he get a table at Twenty-One?"). Moreover, Poppy's critical eye, which was always whimsically weak, is now rolling toward astigmatism. "It never occurred to me," he groans of Lady Elsie Mendl, ". . . that she, poor darling, was relatively destitute. She left a million . . . but it's peanuts, considering her fashion of living, her travels . . . artisans . . . servants...