Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical, of course, that the Dodger run came on a hit which simply refused to bounce off a perfectly good screen. The seasoned fan expected the next batter to hit the sign and win a free suit, or to take three bases on a foul bunt...
...York Giant baseball fans are a faithful lot whose loyalty has been stretched pretty thin for the past twelve years. While the Giants floundered around in the lower depths of the National League, the Giant fan has had to live on memories of Manager John McGraw's fighting teams and of such great pitchers as Christy Mathewson, Fred Fitzsimmons and Carl Hubbell...
...arrival as Britain's chief delegate to the U.N. (succeeding Sir Alexander Cadogan) coincided with the return of Russia's Jacob Malik. His polished delivery, his shrewd, easy wit, his telling replies to tedious Malik have made him a favorite of U.N. audiences. A typical TV-fan wire, from Chevy Chase (Md.), read: "You were magnificent in defense of all that is worthwhile in this world." Sir Gladwyn thinks such responses "extraordinary...
...from Bauer, Berra and Rizzuto, Manager Stengel can afford to rest his old reliables occasionally, save them for the games where they will be needed most. If baseball history repeats, two such games will be the last two of the season. Last year, as no New York or Boston fan needs to be told, the Yankees won the pennant by taking the last two from the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. This year the teams end their seasons with a two-game series in Fenway Park...
...trick. In his resolution he had even lined up some examples of the men he was talking about. Topping the senatorial rogues' gallery: Hollywood's "Unfriendly Ten" (Screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson et al.) and Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, who, according to ex-Bergman Fan Johnson, had been "an apostle of Fascism ... an active Nazi collaborator ... a narcotic addict...