Word: gloved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fielding shortstop who teamed with "Stuffy" Mclnnis at first, Eddie Collins at second and "Home Run" Baker at third to form the "$100,000 infield"* that sparked Connie Mack's old Philadelphia Athletics to American League pennants in 1910, _ 1911, 1913 and 1914, a weak (.243) hitter whose glove work was so superb that Mack called him "the greatest shortstop there ever was," named him to his "dream team" in 1948; of cancer-in Shrewsbury, Mass...
...State of Mississippi from encroachment by the Federal Government." To do the job, it has plenty of political muscle -Governor Ross Barnett, his lieutenant governor and the attorney general are among the members-and ample funds, from a two-year budget of $350,000. It works hand in glove with the state's White Citizens Councils, whose educational foundation it subsidized with $50,000 last year. It also has a private, secret network of paid spies, who report the attitudes of individual Mississippians toward racial issues and have created a chilling climate in the heart of the Deep South...
...work, Florentine Bernardo Daddi's 14th-century twin-panel altarpiece of Virgin and Child and The Last Judgment, to the latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
...camera finds the hero (Belmondo) flobbing around Marseille, sucking a cigarette, nothing to do: a portrait of the Frenchman as a young punk. Casually, he steals a car, roars north. Sixty. Seventy. Eighty. Police give chase. Gun in glove compartment. Why not? He kills a policeman, panics, runs. Paris. Meets bedmate, an American girl (Seberg), on the street, makes date, strolls off. Police spot him, give chase. Loses them in subway, goes to a men's room. Man washing hands. Punk slugs him, empties his pockets. Girl goes home, finds him in her bed. "Why did you come...
Like many a well-dressed political boss, New York's Carmine De Sapio wears a velvet glove over his hard fist: his public utterances are usually soothing; he rarely shows irritation or displeasure. But last week De Sapio, sore beset by the so-called reform insurgents, who seek to unseat him as New York Democratic national committeeman and leader of Tammany Hall, struck out at his tormentors. In this year's New York City mayoralty campaign, De Sapio promised, his regular Democrats will "oppose and oust these self-styled leaders who seek to rule or ruin the party...