Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homemade convictions is the belief that a coach's approach to his players should vary with their national origins. Italian boys, he says, need encouragement because they are lethargic in action. Scandinavians are the hardest to stir up ("I begin needling them on Tuesday"). He plasters the locker-room wall with cautionary signs. This season the warnings are directed against overconfidence. Says one: "There are no savings deposits in football. It's what you do in each game that counts...
...private notes on the Nazis and their antics. These became Berlin Diary, which nearly a million Americans bought for a sideline view of Hitler Germany in action. Now, on a return visit to Berlin, Shirer conducts his readers into the whipped team's locker room, where all is groans, whimpers-and hopes of war between the U.S. and Russia...
Boss Larry MacPhail, who had wisely kept his nose out of the New York Yankees' locker room all season, rushed in to join the celebration. His Yankees had just clinched the 1947 American League pennant, and were having themselves a time...
...Robinson's own Dodger mates who first came round. One or two of his fellow Dodgers began to say "Hello" to him in the locker room. Jackie wrote to his high-school baseball coach: "It isn't too tough on me. I have played with white boys all my life. But they hadn't played with a Negro before, and it sure was rough on some of them." Soon he was invited to play cards on trips, but though he didn't like the deuces-wild type of poker the boys played, he joined...
...homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey. They was that nosey that they turned out me locker for to clean it. Quare sort of cleaning they gev it. Examinin' me belongin's. Jest because I had put away a couple of biscuits and crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters, they told me I was encouragin...