Word: drawbacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birdie. Now, like their manager, the Redlegs are convinced that there is nothing worse in life than losing. So they have bounced back from a staggering last-place start. They have made do without the services of Slugger Ted Kluszewski, whose injured back has turned him into a defensive drawback around first base and a spottv performer at the plate. Slowly and steadily they have clawed their way out ox recurrent slumps, and scrambled back toward the lead where they are sure they belong...
There is only one drawback: to promote the new brands is an expensive game. Fighting hard to push its late-starting Hit Parade in the filter race, American Tobacco Co. alone spent about $28 million on advertising last year...
...macabre, however, are too often marred by overexplicit final comments on them. Situations whose full explanations have already been slyly suggested are left with less impact by authors afraid to lead the reader to finish the thought. Overexplaining away the power of a haunting ending is a drawback in, among others, Philip MacDonald, who tediously overends his tale of a brutal murderer's being saved by murder. Perhaps TV would always demand a soothing or at least carefully explicit ending; books...
...insurance, one form of a $10,000 endowment policy pays $10,000 in insurance if the policyholder dies before the age of 65, a lump sum of $10,000 when he reaches the age of 65, or an income of $65 monthly for the rest of his life. The drawback is that because endowment policies build up big cash values, premiums are the highest of all. Cost of a $10,000 endowment for a man aged 30: about $300 per year for a monthly income of $65 after the age of 65. Since actuarial tables show that men die sooner...
...wonder Claudine. the pretty 15-year-old, laments: ''Tomorrow [is] Sunday. No school. What a bore! It's the only place I find amusing.'' The single drawback is that "all those people were beginning to wear me out by forcing me to be incessantly trying to find out what they were thinking of doing.'' By cunning eavesdropping, peeping, threats, gathering of girlish confidences and the reading of other people's love letters, Claudine manages to stay on top of the news...