Word: copybooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it came to rehabilitating Stan Musial, the usual rules didn't apply. He is a "hip hitter" who does his best when ignoring the copybook: holding one shoulder lower than the other, hugging the rear of the batter's box, crouching forward with a ready-to-pounce stance, putting a lot of body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours...
...years ago were constantly badgered ... for either libeling Soviet life or indulging in hothouse estheticism, have lately been awarded the highest honors." On this encouraging (but no longer valid) premise, he concludes: "Perhaps some day the present zeal for using the theater as a means for visual demonstration of copybook maxims (Soviet version) will pass...
...York police estimated) had gathered in Central Park to hear the President. They stretched almost across the width of the park. But they were not stirred by the speech. The President said little he had not said before. As usual, he sounded as if he were reciting from a copybook, not too well-written. But this time the copybook had a new and very impressive binding. Against the background of the seapower in the Hudson and the airpower over Manhattan's skyscrapers, he restated U.S. foreign policy...
...eight seasons, short, bespectacled Gil Dodds has been something of a track oddity. He usually knelt and prayed before each race. On trips, he often carried bread and honey sandwiches in a paper bag. His awkward running style - arms thrashing like windmills - outraged the copybook but set a world's indoor mile record of 4:06.4. Last week, just after his coach predicted that he would soon smash that record by as much as two seconds, Dodds said he was through with track forever - he had received the Call to begin full-time gospel work...
...week it seemed clear that the Nazi High Command intended to force a decision west of the Rhine, and specifically west of that stretch of the Rhine covering the Ruhr. The German gamble suited Generals Eisenhower and Bradley down to the ground: they both believed in the good old copybook maxim that it is more important to destroy the enemy than to capture ground...