Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Banana Nose. Why do horseplayers jeer the jockey they freely acknowledge to be the best? The fan who shouts, "Hey you, Banana Nose, drop dead!" would have a hard time explaining it. If pinned down, he. would probably admit that he thinks Arcaro is so good he can win whenever he wants to. And thus, when Arcaro loses, the fan suspects something fishy is going...
...watching a race whether a jockey is trying or not. Like pro wrestlers, they can put on a great show ? lots of whip-waving and scuffling. (If they want to lose, all they need to do is loosen the reins an instant and let the horse's head drop, or run into a jam, or lose a few lengths on a turn...
Last week, the shortage of steel was pinching off production in the whole industry. After a drop of 3,000 units a fortnight ago, auto production last week fell 17,600 more to 85,345 units, the worst production week in three months. G.M. last week shut down eleven Chevrolet assembly plants, and this week closed the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac assembly plants for a week. Plymouth also shut down for a week. Ford, which had closed earlier for model changes, had not got back to volume production. On top of the steel shortage were the threats of the rambunctious...
...starts, and boosted his current season's record total to a sizzling 86 strike-outs in 33⅓ innings (an average of 2.6 strike-outs an inning). A week earlier he struck out 28 men in nine innings (the catcher couldn't handle Radcliffe's fast drop on one third strike), allowing only one hit in a 10-0 shutout...
...darkened grade-school auditorium in Miamisburg, Ohio, parents and pupils sat on the edge of their seats. On the stage, a white ping-pong ball, shot from a gun, struck a cluster of red and green balls. Lights flashed and the cluster split in two. At the drop of another ball, scores of other fluorescent ping-pong balls started dancing and popping around in a cage. In this entertaining way, the Monsanto Chemical Co., which ran atomic research at the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge until early this year, demonstrated the principles of atomic fission and a chain reaction...