Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supposed to let one strike go by and hit the next pitch into the left field seats. But Bob Kuzava failed to take the role of Ralph Branca seriously. His first pitch was a ball, and Bob Thomson couldn't find his place. With appalling inability to ad lib, Thomson lifted a fly to left and Dark scored, but it wasn't the same thing...
...just once during the week did his temper get the best of him in public. Addressing the Highway Safety Conference, he deplored the high casualty rate on U.S. highways, then departed from his prepared speech for an intemperate ad lib. Said he: "We have been attempting to stop an act of aggression in Korea for the last year. The total casualties for the whole operation have been less than 80,000 . . . and that means every kind of death and injury that could take place in that operation. That is on the mind and tongue of every citizen. But right here...
...Superintendent Link Conboy and his family had to make the best of it. And the best of it, as the superintendent saw it, was daughter Gate's romance with the young insurance salesman who had come down from Indianapolis to spend the holidays with the Conboy family. Wife Lib made popcorn balls, daughter Cate decked out the dining room with red-and-green streamers and piled pine cones and cedar boughs in the middle of the table. "Your beau's going to think you've emptied the woodbox on the table," Lib objected. Cate knew better...
...Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert. Over on the Right Bank that same afternoon the editors of the newspaper Parisien Libéré were awarding its Prix de la Vérité to a book reporting bad conditions in French hospitals. The Prix Scarron for books of humor went to Ernestine Gilbreth Carey and Frank Gilbreth Jr. for their Treize à la douzaine (Cheaper by the Dozen). The prize, which is supposed...
...Chicago group's imaginative approach has been born of necessity. Lacking big budgets, elaborate equipment and big-name talent, they are forced to shortcut the elaborate. They specialize in what they call "simplified realism" and "ad-lib drama." By banning studio audiences they can use the four walls of every set; short on cameras, booms and overhead trolleys, they never switch from one camera to another without a good reason...