Word: conk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wood to it that time!" And Leon Wagner of the Los Angeles Angels confides: "I'm one of the best defensive outfielders in the game." At 29, Wagner may not be the game's worst gloveman (unlike Yogi Berra, he has never let a descending fly ball conk him on the head), but the tag of "Butcher" has stuck with him through three ball clubs and five big-league seasons. What Wagner does best is swing a bat lefthanded, and last week he was swinging well enough to tie for second in home runs (15), rank third...
Dizzying Turnover. Even at reduced rents, however, many of the luxury apartments would hardly be bargains. In midsummer, tenants often use buckets to fill their marble bathtubs because the water supply runs out; heating systems freeze during the brief winter, and air-conditioning units conk out during the long, hot summer. Walls are so thin that tenants can hear their neighbors drop their socks. The newer buildings, aglitter with acres of glass, anodized aluminum and burnished Swedish wood, leave much to be desired in the way of design. When the oil millionaires hit town from the sandy back country, they...
...meets a sawed-off apprentice thug who wants her to buy a brick or he will conk her with it. She has no money, but takes the brick and, in innocence, offers it for the thug to a hysterical old man. A cop comes, the thug runs, she is led off to the station. There she panics, locks herself into what turns out to be the station arsenal. But the chief of police is coming for an inspection, and the door must be opened. A convict safecracker is summoned, dressed in a cop's uniform. The chief praises...