Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...muff in the third game, Philly Shortstop Hamner, 23, inconsolably told himself he was the series goat. "I've made a lot of errors in my life," he said, "but that one . . ." Actually the series had no goat. It also produced no new towering heroes. The standouts, apart from the pitchers: aging (35) Joe DiMaggio, on his fielding and clutch hitting; quiet, self-effacing Yankee Second Baseman Jerry Coleman, 26, 1949's rookie-of-the-year, who figured in five of his team's six runs in the first three games...
Turkey is a tough mouse and an assault on it could be made only with Russian troops. By many standards Turkey is a backward country, but the Turks these days have a very simple and clear foreign policy: they are determined to fight on every goat path in the Taurus Mountains and to make the Russians pay & pay for every melon patch in Adana and every back alley in Erzurum. The Kremlin calculators will think twice or more before they take on a people whom they may well regard as Finns with mountains-and a people who would probably...
...express his gratitude for Marshall Plan aid, a Cretan mountaineer named Estakios Protopapadakis sent a present to Harry Truman: a silky-haired, two-year-old mountain goat named Kri Kri. "Kri Kri doesn't smell too strong," Protopapadakis assured the President, "and he won't butt...
Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin (TIME...
Another Pamela or, Virtue Still Rewarded, by Upton Sinclair. A California goat-girl resists almost all temptations and marries into the Big Rich; a retread of Richardson's 18th Century novel in which Sinclair gives his old aversion to wealth a fresh spin, mostly good-humored (TIME...