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...never smoothed off all his hillbilly edges, wriggled with shyness, protesting: "Aw, naw, general. But I've been reading a lot about you." After posting a 131 in the Celebrities Tournament, Sam struck out for Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Case of the Borrowed Putter | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...stayed on with his Nicaraguan wife after the U.S. occupation in the 'sos, picked his teeth and said knowingly: "The Guardia's setting them off to see if it can push the opposition into playing its hand." In a nearby bar, another ex-marine had it differently. "Naw," he countered, "it's the opposition; they're just tossing bombs to study the Guardia's operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: The Shrewd Apothecary | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Field. It was an hour and a half before game time. He looked around, then strolled nonchalantly to the third-base dugout. Someone offered him a chew of tobacco and asked if he was nervous. The most talked-about pitcher of the year waved away the tobacco and said: "Naw, I don't get nervous any more. Last year I used to be nervous as a cat before a game, and then I found it made me wild in the early innings. So I said to myself, 'Boy, you can't be nervous any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Doesn't Worry | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked to tell them kiddingly that he was going to throw the fight: "Naw, bet on the other guy . . . I'm going into the tank." Then he always gave them the same brush-off: "See ya later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: See Ya Later | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...slumped drastically. The reason: SKF employes, confused by all the niff-naw, thought that the bearings they were making were going to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Backfire | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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