Word: misplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rags-to-riches freshman team, which opened the season with a 22-1 loss to Andover, actually led against Williams with 40 seconds remaining. However, a misplay and the last of the Crimson's twenty-four penalties aided the Ephs in scoring two goals...
This play--or rather, misplay--occurred in the home half of the third inning. The Crimson's Kent Hathaway had dropped a fly-ball double into left field and Mouse Kesarjian had walked, when catcher John Davis came to bat. Davis knocked a bounding ball through the middle of the infield, that seemed certain to score...
Chief Justice Fred Vinson, once a favorite of Harry Truman's at the poker table, is a regular at Ike's bridge table. A crackerjack player, good-humored Fred Vinson has never been known to get openly riled at a partner's misplay. Another regular is Air Secretary Harold Talbott. who has a competitive spirit to match Ike's, and plays an equally smart game. Among occasional players: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith; Banker Clifford Roberts; Newspaper Executive William E. Robinson, Bridge Master Oswald Jacoby. (Says Jacoby: "The President plays better...
Arnold weakened considerably in the last of the seventh, and Yale rallied to score four times on two triples, a hit batsman, and an error by Johnson--the only misplay by the Crimson in either contest...