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Word: disgust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teammates put him down as lazy and self-centered. Instead of pounding his glove in disgust after booting one, Wakefield would laugh and admit that he sure looked like a clown on that one. When Manager Steve O'Neill once tried to shock him out of his complacency by benching him, Dick replied agreeably, "That's all right, Steve . . . Don't put yourself on a spot for me." Manager "Red" Rolfe tried another approach-bullying him-with no more success. At their wit's end a fortnight ago, the Tigers traded their perennial problem child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I've Been a Bad Boy | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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