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Word: fanning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 72 years the British were resigned to quitting the troubled Suez Canal Zone; the Egyptians would be happy to see them go. Last week, for the first time since talks collapsed nine months ago, shirtsleeved negotiators sat down together, cooled by a single fan, in a rented Cairo villa. At last they seemed to be getting somewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Leaving the Suez | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...this inviting sight, the hearts of Giant fans quicken and their eyes gleam. In the big world outside, the pitchers are throwing bean balls, and there seems to be little but trouble. But inside the small, noisy world of the Polo Grounds, all is well. The Giants are winning. They are taking ball games at a better than two-to-one clip, and they have battered the second-place Brooklyn Dodgers into a temporary state of slack-jawed apprehension. This week they were on top of the National League with a handsome six-game lead after Sunday's games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...locker room at Ebbets Field, the Giants sulked away a long afternoon while they waited to start the last of the series with the archenemy. Outside, a thin rain drenched Brooklyn. "Do you think those bums'll call it off?" muttered Hank Thompson as he riffled through his fan mail. "Hell, no. Anything for a lousy dollar." He slouched over for a rubdown from the trainer. Off in a corner, Willie Mays and his road-trip roommate, Monte Irvin, laughed apathetically over a joke. Across the room, a group of players carried on a silent gin-rummy game. Conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: He Come to Win | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...modern baseball fan has good reason to change the words of the old song to "I don't know if I'll ever get back." In growing bigger, big-league baseball has also grown painfully slower as pitchers outwait batters, batters outwait pitchers, managers perform for TV, and umpires examine the ball, the plate and the terrain for dangerous specks of dust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dawdlers | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

Shoals gets $500 a month to play first base and manage the team. Reyes makes $275 at third. Many a Kingsport fan comes out to the ball game just to see Reyes lumber up to the plate, shift his cud of tobacco, wag his massive hindquarters at the crowd and growl at the catcher. The crowd likes the volatile Cubans, too; sometimes one of them steals a base, not because the situation warrants it, but simply because he is in the mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bushes | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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