Word: nicking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This left the bases full. Nick Rodis took a base on balls, forcing Swegan home for the first Crimson run, and then Petrillo scampered in on a fielder's choice knocked out by Mel Allen's bat. Fitz scored in the third inning and Swegan again in the fifth...
...After Nick Rodis got the scoring under way with a double that scored Bill Fitz from first in the second inning, there was never much doubt about the out-come of the contest...
Postponed because of rain, Saturday's Varsity baseball game against Tufts University will he played at Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Although Don Swegan may not be able to start because of a spiked hand, the Crimson nine will be boistered by the addition of Nick Rodis and Pete Petrillo...
...with both guns smoking and his spurs mixed up in a dead heavy; so the primordial, hard-riding, lone-wolfish hero (best personified by Bill Hart) gave way to the more folksy, even mildly urbane type. Gene and Roy Rogers, like their prototypes, turn up in time's nick to liquidate wrongdoers and still ride fast to get there, but they are never the grim-lipped supermen of the sage wastes-just neighbors down the road...
...City Council, Irishman Kelly pushed through a resolution proclaiming March 17 "Hungarian Day in Chicago," got the word in time's nick and breathlessly saved the day for St. Patrick...