Word: gonfalons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alaska's Bob Bartlett, Florida's Spessard Holland, Wyoming's Gale McGee, Alabama's John Sparkman. "Great progressive leadership," cried Ohio's Stephen Young. This was far more than the usual reflex action to an attack on a member of the club: the Johnsonian gonfalon, it was plain to see, was moving deep into the liberal ranks...
...pesky Washington Senators continued their drive for the gonfalon last night as they defeated the Detroit Tigers in the ninth inning, 2 to 1. Catcher Ed Fitzgerald won the game for the Nats with a ninth inning bases-loaded single as Pete Ramos went...
...annual meeting of the Associated Press Managing Editors in Chicago last week. U.S. sports editors made up a list of the ten tiredest cliches used in sports writing. The winners, in order: "mentor" (usually "cagy" or "genial"), "inked pact," "pay dirt," "circuit clout," "gonfalon," "roaring back or out or from behind." "outclassed but game" (with numerous variations), "clobber," "gridders" and "cage or cagers...
...Braves will also be represented at the Senior Circuit's Diamond Jubilee. Historians will remember that that was the club that came from last place on July 4 to win the coveted gonfalon and the world serious...
CROSS SECTION, Kan., Nov. 24--Gonfalon B. Mud, the CRIMSON's newly-hired football prognosticator, could nowhere be located here yesterday for his Yale game prediction. According to townsfolk, the Kansau pollster embarked on a week-long drinking bingo immediately following last week's successful prediction of a Harvard victory over Brown...