Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settled in the left index finger, the one that controls the curve. So much for that season. Sandy won 25 games in 1963, figured to do even better last year, when he picked up his 19th in August. If only he hadn't jammed his left elbow sliding into base...
...Florida last week, Koufax got up one morning to find that his left arm was stiff and swollen. General Manager Buzzie Bavasi packed him off to Los Angeles for X rays. The verdict: at 29 he has a "traumatic arthritic condition" in his pitching elbow that flares up under "repeated stress"-throwing a baseball, for instance. Koufax cannot pitch the Dodgers' season opener, and there is no telling when he will be back in action-if at all. There is, of course, no cure for arthritis. Said Bavasi: "I am resetting the club right now, with the idea that...
...Watson. 45, chairman of IBM World Trade Corp. and youneer brother of IBM Chief Thomas J. Wat son Jr., gave voice to that belief and made a suggestion for reform. What is needed, Watson told the Detroit Economic Club, is "a system that will give the free world elbow room to grow, without these unending balance-of-payments crises that alternately hound us and Europe." He asked: "Why not create a new kind of currency backed not only by gold but also by the assets of American business abroad...
...about everything under the sun. Dean Acheson said of him: "One needs to see, to hear-particularly to hear his laugh, his general noisiness-to realize what an obstreperous person this man is, to have one's arm numbed by his viselike grip just above one's elbow, to feel the intensity of his nervous energy. Above all, one needs years of experience to know the depth of his concern about people...
...teams indulge in this sort of mayhem? "To bother me," Williams said simply. A defender will hold Williams to keep him from getting in to rebound, elbow around him to get at a guard about to shoot, or grab him for balance when a player cuts behind the high post. Some teams are rough for roughness' sake. "B.C. was trying to push me off the line--period," Williams said. "The ref kept saying, 'Take it easy, take it easy.' I kept saying, 'Don't take it easy, call a foul...