Word: losers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasons of health," after a series of front-office rows with President Larry MacPhail. Coaxed out of retirement in 1948 by the Red Sox, he lost the pennant on the last day of the season, two years in a row. Always hard to get along with, never a good loser, McCarthy rushed home at season's end last fall without even discussing a new contract. Last week, after his favored Red Sox dropped eleven out of 13 games, he finally gave...
...knock a ping-pong ball back & forth between them (see cut). When the ball was missed, it fell into a trough and released some grain for the opponent. Pigeons that played this game quickly caught the competitive spirit: until Dr. Skinner decided to restrain them with wire shields, a loser sometimes tried to fly over the table and murder his victorious opponent...
...named because this is the University's 314th year, replaces the Album, which was abolished by the Student Council last year because it was a persistent money loser and was always late. The Council abolished the Freshman Red Book, a Yardling annual, at the same time and for the same reasons...
Morey and Ward, arguing the affirmative, maintained that when industry is operated for private profit, the public is, in the long run, the loser...
...decision, the U.S. court of appeals in Washington held that the Government's loyalty program-created two years ago by presidential order-is constitutional. Loser of the decision was Miss Dorothy Bailey, a slim, 39-year-old Uni versity of Minnesota graduate who was fired from her $8,000-a-year job in the U.S. Employment Service because President Truman's three-man Loyalty Review Board found "reasonable grounds" for believing she was "disloyal" to her Government...