Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incapable of winning in the series, failed again, unhappily slouched off the field under the Yankees' second-inning fusillade, later relieved his frustration by taking a poke at a heckling parking-lot attendant. But his teammates went on a rampage. Stengel flung one pitcher after another into the fray (for a World Series record of seven), but the Dodgers hit them all impartially and often, whenever they were not drawing walks (the Yankees' seven pitchers issued eleven bases on balls, another series record). The game produced several other records. The Dodgers' six runs in the second inning...
Councillor Al Vellucci, who gained local notoriety last spring through his Harvard-baiting tactics, returned to the fray yesterday with a radical threat to send a highway through the middle of Harvard yard...
...have become a bit too worldly," the abbot of Zen Daitokuji Temple insisted nevertheless that one bad priest should not be used to damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing the mayor on any count, promptly joined the fray with a sound truck that blared out the charge that Takayama was "persecuting religion." With their most pious mien, the priests thereupon barred the doors of their temples to all but "genuine worshipers," whom they admitted free. The definition of a "genuine worshiper"? One who agreed to make a "voluntary...
Many business leaders are becoming increasingly aware that management cannot play an effective role in politics merely by contributing cash in election years or leaping into the fray when threatened with hostile legislation. If business is to live up to its social responsibilities, they argue, businessmen will have to devote to politics the inventiveness and drive that they lavish full-time on their jobs. Says U.S. Chamber of Commerce President John S. Coleman: "We must have a point of view−a philosophy that will permit us, instead of resisting change, to play a creative role in controlling and directing...
Eagerly the Communists jumped into the fray. "The ignoble . . . theoretician of the policy of strength," Moscow Radio called Dulles. Peking Radio hurled a Chinese proverb at him: "A man who has had his face slapped into a bloated shape can only pretend he has gained weight." Headlined the U.S. Daily Worker: DULLES...