Word: hydrant
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...squares away to a pitch as though he were going to beat a rug. Crowding the plate with feet apart, he rears up his front leg (not unlike a dog leaning into a hydrant), pulls back his bat, then steps forward and swings. Whenever he faces a high-kicking pitcher, the game looks as leggy as ballet...
Beginning this week, hydrant-shaped James C. Petrillo, boss of the American Federation of Musicians, will have to get along with four bodyguards (all relatives) instead of six. Two of his retinue had been told the job was over. Source of the news: Chicago's Police Department, which at long last had decided "Little Caesar" could get along with less protection...
...Bullets were whining up the street, so we dived behind an inadequate steel phone pole and hydrant. We tried three times to join the others, but each time bullets drove us back. Trying to accommodate my not exactly sylphlike figure to that reedy pole, I wished savagely its designer were in my place. Finally, after the longest five minutes I ever spent, we risked a dash and legged it back the way we had come and sat down behind a retaining wall and wondered what to do next. Civilians in windows and balconies offered all sorts of unintelligible suggestions...
Police Reporter Tony Marino was rushed with a cameraman to the Lonergan apartment, on traditionally (but not actually) prim Beekman Hill. Earthy, fire-hydrant-shaped Al Binder, who "knows everybody" and who had come in from vacation for his mail, was told to get Patricia's picture. He scored a screaming beat, an exclusive photo which the News splashed over Page One. Before it was over, 20 News cameramen, 20 reporters were on the story...
...tents, shacks and trailers. There was tragic, dirty confusion: in Macomb County, just north of the city, newly laid water mains were torn up to supply another area. Some 300 families of defense workers were forced to lug their water, some as far as three miles, from a public hydrant...