Word: dodger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home in the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants teed off on Dodger pitching, took two games of a three-game series with their arch rivals, all but clinched the National League pennant, and brushed Brooklyn back into a second-place scramble with the Milwaukee Braves. In the Yankee Stadium, the World Champions took two out of three from the league-leading Indians to stay within a long reach of their sixth pennant in a row. But time was running out. Cleveland moved into Baltimore for Labor Day, 4½ games in front...
...Brooklyn, lanky (6 ft. 4 in.) Joe Adcock, 26, first baseman for the Milwaukee Braves, belted four homers and a double off four Dodger pitchers, paced his teammates to a 15-7 victory. Adcock also broke a major-league record by hitting for 18 bases in a single game, tied other major-league records: most homers in a single game (four), most homers in two successive games (five), and most extra-base hits in one game (five...
...which has been fighting a group of rebel stockholders who say that management salaries are too high and hit records too few, finally won its proxy war by a 6-to-1 margin. Decca's President Milton Rackmil said that the man behind all the trouble was Draft Dodger Serge Rubinstein (TIME, Mar. 5, 1947), who had paid for the opposition's proxy solicitors and twice visited Decca trying to make a deal that would give him a voice in company policy...
...Commons. While Churchill cried havoc from the back benches, Butler loyally defended Munich and Mussolini's Italy in his maddeningly tranquil voice, became famed for his equivocal replies to awkward questions. The exasperated and jittery Commons nicknamed him "Stonewall Butler," and Lloyd George called him "the artful dodger...
...Florida spring, the Brooklyn Dodgers did something they seem unable to do in the fall: won a series from the New York Yankees, three games to one. Particular Dodger star: Pitcher Don Newcombe, back from the Army, who pitched six hitless innings in one game...