Word: neck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth, the rain started again. In the ninth, the ball was slippery, and Barney was pressing. With the count three-and-two, the first batter swung at a pitch up around his neck. The second Giant popped a mile-high fly to First Baseman Gil Hodges, who wiped the rain from his face and caught it. Then Whitey Lockman, who had hit three home runs off Barney earlier in the season, stepped up. He got a piece of the ball, but it fouled off near the Dodger dugout. Looking up into the lights, Catcher Bruce Edwards thought he was "seeing...
...contestants had been neck & neck during most of their runoff campaign. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), black-haired Lyndon Johnson was the more dramatic of the two. At 40, he was a seasoned and ambitious man. He had been a janitor, a schoolteacher, a secretary, a New Deal youth administrator (he liked to say that Franklin Roosevelt had "been like a daddy" to him), and had served 5½ terms in Congress. He had been in close races before. He had run for the Senate against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel in 1941, had been beaten by only...
Menace to Hoomanity. The shmoo is a small animal which looks like an animated ham. From its round rump a plumpish neck narrows toward a tiny head; from above a sparse mustache, a pair of trusting eyes peer myopically but ingratiatingly at the world. In the words of the greatest living authority on shmoos: "They lays aigs at th' slightest excuse! They also gives milk. And as fo' meat-broiled, they makes th' finest steaks; fried, they come out th' yummiest chicken." The shmoo is so sensitive and so eager to please that when a human...
Died. Maud Charlesworth Booth, 82, national commander of the Volunteers of America, known as "the little mother of the prison world" for her work in prison reform and the rehabilitation of ex-convicts; in Great Neck, N.Y. Married in 1887 to the son of the Salvation Army's founder, she and her husband left the Salvation Army in 1896 to found the Volunteers, which eventually, in the U.S., grew to rival its parent organization...
...grossing $26 million a year, Leonard's is neck & neck with Houston's Foley's, Texas' most spectacular retail outlet. Next year Leonard's hopes to leave Foley's far behind. Says brother Marvin: "A store must always grow, or else it's going to shrink...