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Word: fungoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Vagabond loosened his tie knot the least bit, threw away his cigarette. At the plate the coach hefted the fungo bat, swung through easily, and looped the ball to the leftfielder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

...agreed that baseball playing was a matter of adaptaing one's individual reflexes to the various aspects of the game. People with good reflexes permitted to develop in their own peculiar way become good baseball players; those with bad coordination spend all their days trying to master a fungo...

Author: By Donald Carsweli, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...first bombs were dropped and the first shots were fired last week in the Battle of the Middle East. Their sound was not great; it was a preliminary noise, like the crack of fungo bat against a baseball in warming-up time. But it was a business-like noise, a major-league, worldseries noise. There could no longer be any question where a new theater of war would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: The Battle Joins | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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