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Word: misplayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Teams Bow to Williams | 5/15/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Late-Inning Hurling Defeats Brown Squad, 4-3 | 4/24/1958 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: White House Bridge Player | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Wins 11-7 Opener from Elis, Misses Afterpiece, 2-0 | 5/5/1952 | See Source »

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