Word: grandstanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second thought there was one thing which had been changed. Without having to crash the gates or sneak under the fence I saw last week's game scot free--thanks to the Radio's grandstand seat...
Still, the Queen did not quit on her colt. Like an anxious modern mother, she turned to psychiatry for help. There were experts in the Laurel grandstand who believed that Landau had been cured of his inferiority complex and was ready...
...Durocher called on "Dusty" Rhodes, his first-rate, second-string outfielder, who had been a sensational pinch hitter all season. Dusty Rhodes popped the first pitch into a lazy arc along the rightfield foul line, and a light breeze wafted it over the high green grandstand barrier for a home run that broke up the game...
Having haggled over everything from the art of doctoring pictures to the merits of telephone transcripts, the Greatest Show on TV is moving into its third week. Crawling through points of order, irrelevancies, and grandstand speeches, the McCarthy-Army controversy has become unpopular both to a large share of its semi-captive audience and some of the principles involved. A growing sentiment, represented by Senator McCarthy when he called it "a fight over a private in the Army," teamed with his frequent allusions to "razors near America's jugular vein" have resulted in considerable pressure to cut short the hearings...
...opener with all the trimmings, the pre-game ceremonies began with a flashy band that marched smartly around the outfield for a while, rayon pants glinting in the sun and chin straps fixed fiercely under chins. Then at a signal, the band marched into seats on the grandstand and governor Christian A. Herter threw out the first ball, at least according to the announcer. No one, I believe, actually saw the Governor in all the crowd. The ball just popped out of somewhere and the cather grabbed it. Overhead a plane flew by with the banner, "Murphy for Governor." Scraps...