Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago White Sox Fan Joseph Gorman was moved to rowdy wrath. He leaned over the visitors' dugout, took careful aim and treated Yankee Manager Casey Stengel to a faceful of beer. The response was expansive. "He wasn't cheap," said Casey of the attacker. "He hit me with a full cup." The feelings on both sides of the matter were plain. The White Sox were in the process of piddling away what might well be their last chance at the pennant...
...First Game belonged to a squat pro named Lawrence Peter Berra. All season Catcher Yogi has been floundering through a batting slump, never getting his average up much above his weight (192 Ibs.). But when he does hit, he still has his Yankee habit of making his hits count. His three-run homer in the eighth inning broke up the game, and the Yankees coasted home...
...time his main chute opened, Hughes was down to 40 ft., although he had somersaulted as high as 101 ft. A bare six seconds after he reached for his handle. Hughes hit a plowed field at the end of the runway. For a long second he lay still. Then he bounced up and started to shake hands with the crowd of Navymen that sprinted up to him. ''You feel a terrific crash on your rump, and the next thing, you are out on the end of your chute,'' gasped Hughes. "I feel wizard, though. Positively wizard...
...Patrick Air Force Base by the same type three-stage rocket that next spring will catapult into space the full-size satellites, which will be 20 in. in diameter, weigh 21.5 lbs. Hagen thinks the test satellites will stay aloft only briefly, but admits that one might accidentally hit upon an orbit that could keep it circling the earth indefinitely...
...fractured English of the pop-music world, "payola" is whatever the guy or doll in search of a hit slips to the guy or doll who can make one. Performers, writers and publishers and their song pluggers pass payola to A & R (artists and repertory) chiefs, who decide what the record companies will record; the companies, in turn, spread payola around to selected disk jockeys. If the custom is fully understood in the trade, it is rarely discussed outside it. But last week Singer Frank Sinatra fired a telegram from Hollywood (a town with its own brand of payola...