Word: dour
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...second-game crowd was still talking about Dusty's homer, when it settled back to watch the Giants play like champions. At third dour Hank Thompson made acrobatic, circus saves with astonishing skill; at shortstop Alvin Dark, a hard-looking old pro out of Louisiana State, knocked down everything that came his way. Slowly, with infuriating care, young Johnny Antonelli pitched around the thin edge of disaster. In the fifth, Pinch Hitter Rhodes sneaked a piddling blooper into short centerfield and the game was as good as over...
...Baltimore, dour Paul Richards, who led the Chicago White Sox out of the wilderness of the American League's second division in 1951 and has kept them in third place ever since, was named general manager and field manager of the moulting Orioles (née the St. Louis Browns). Richards' successor in, Chicago: mild Marty ("Mr. Shortstop'') Marion, who flopped with the Browns...
...come under heavy attack from Bevan's left-wing supporters at the Labor Party conference at Scarborough late this month. If Attlee did not go, Nye would appear the anointed apostle of peace, bringing fair-sounding pledges from Malenkov and Mao. And Bevan could paint Attlee as the dour and unpopular proponent of "Guns for the Huns" who refused...
Meanwhile the Senate was still talking. Nevada's dour George Malone was in a huff because Colorado's Eugene Millikin had blocked his pet bill to extend the tax-free whisky-bonding period. So Malone resolved to block Millikin's pet Colorado Basin project, which was the Senate's pending business. He talked about neither reclamation nor whisky and he talked for four hours. ("What is he talking about?" asked a late-coming reporter of a press-gallery attendant. "I don't know; he hasn't said," replied the attendant.) Finally Millikin threw...
...crowd of 10,000, and at the green cornfields stretching endlessly beyond the park. "There are voices in our country," he said, "who daily sound alarms that our civilization is on the way out. Concentrated on the difficulties of our times, they see an early and dour end for us. But civilization does not decline and fall while the people still possess dynamic creative faculties, devotion to religious faith and to liberty. The American people still possess these qualities. We are not at the bedside of a nation in death agony ... As the shadows lengthen over my years, my confidence...