Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ball in the other. Against the Dodgers one day, he raced into right center after a long fly, snagged it with a prodigious stretch, spun completely around, off balance, and rifled a perfect strike to the plate to throw out the Dodgers' speedy Billy Cox. Around big-league locker rooms, that play is still referred to as "The Throw...
...hands when the Brazilian added a neat left to the chops. The Hungarian fell. The Brazilians insisted that it really began minutes before, when Hungarian Captain Ferenc Puskas hit Brazil's Joao Pinheiro in the face with a pop bottle. However it started, the fight swirled through the locker rooms, and players, spectators and officials got in licks with bottles, furniture, glass from shattered partitions and the toe-ends of good solid soccer boots. Swiss gendarmes surrounded the locker room, but for a while all they could do was keep out reinforcements. If it was any consolation, Brazil...
...locker room of Washington's Burning Tree Country Club, Washington Post and Times Herald Publisher Philip Graham turned to the man next to him. "Your wife," he said, "is costing me a lot of money." Replied Dwight D. Eisenhower: "How do you mean?" Explaining that the Post had paid dearly ($2,400) to serialize Dorothy Brandon's Mamie Doud Eisenhower, A Portrait of a First Lady, Graham went on : "The articles cost me so much that I asked my circulation man what he thought. You know what he said? 'Mamie...
...intervention as jeopardizing a Geneva peace, Bidault knew that the U.S.'s threat of military action had been the only club in the West's locker. Now the U.S., like the British, and like the French long ago, had faltered...
...year-old boy convicted of robbing a younger boy in a swimming-pool locker room. Sentence: to help the younger boy with his school lessons for one year...