Word: grapeshot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such pre-game gamesmanship recalled the New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who pumped batting-practice home runs into the stands like grapeshot before the first World Series game of 1932. Demoralized by the sight, the goggle-eyed Chicago Cubs faded in four straight games. Similarly unnerved by news about the Sooners, the overrated Panthers never got started...
...Louisville, a segregationist composed a battle hymn: "Stand firmly by your cannon/Let ball and grapeshot fly/And trust in God and Faubus/But keep your powder dry." In Alabama four potential candidates for governor set a political pattern for the South, each desperately trying to outdo the others in praise of Faubus. One wired Faubus his congratulations. Another promised to back Faubus "at all costs." A third offered to go to jail to prevent integration. The fourth topped them all: he was willing to die for segregation...
They met soon after dawn Oct. 20, 1805. A "series of single combats of the most bloody ferocity," the battle reached its peak when ship jammed against ship, exchanging furious broadsides and grapeshot at point-blank range, with boarding parties hanging massed along the bulwark netting. The rigging of the French ships swarmed with grenadiers and sharpshooters-and it was one of these, alongside Nelson's flagship Victory, who, recognizing the great captain dressed in "a blaze of colour," took aim and mortally wounded him with a single shot. Nonetheless, by midafternoon the Franco-Spanish line had ceased...
Washington Post Music Critic Paul Hume, whose opinion of daughter Margaret's singing last month prompted Harry Truman to take angry pen in hand, felt the sting of some critical grapeshot himself. After Hume narrated Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf for a National Symphony children's concert in Constitution Hall, the Post printed a frank opinion by six-year-old Critic Frank Manola: "He doesn't sound like Basil Rathbone on my Peter and the Wolf records. He sounds more like Phil Harris on the radio...