Word: no-hit
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...TIME jinx legend is something like the old baseball taboo - never, before the last out is called, tell the man on the mound that he is pitching a no-hit game (as if he didn't know it). If anybody gets a single, the informant is accused of jinxing the pitcher. Not only sports figures, but many other top news personalities (such as politicians, businessmen and generals) are engaged in highly competitive enterprises. They may, like Thomas Dewey, two weeks after an October 1944 cover, get knocked out of the box. They may, like Marshal Stalin after eight different...
...Cleveland Pitcher Bob Feller, a no-hit game (his third in 13 years), over the Detroit Tigers, 2-1, after Detroit spoiled a shut-out by scoring on a combination of two errors, a stolen base and a long fly ball; in Cleveland...
When war came, Herbert wagged his tongue in Commons less, wigwagged the semaphore flags on his river boat, Water Gipsy, more. Charged with mine-spotting on the Thames, Skipper Herbert also fought no-hit engagements with passing "doodlebugs" (V1 flying bombs), once scurried ashore with his crew to retrieve books (including one of his own) from his publisher's burning office. In midwar, he traveled to Newfoundland and Labrador on a parliamentary survey, made a report and duly noted that Labrador Husky dogs were "the only modified wolves in the Civil Service. Or perhaps...
Baseball and softball teams from four Houses braved the drizzle yesterday, but both Kirkland and-Winthrop should have stayed at home. Eliot's Luke Lockwood pitched a no-hit, 6 to 1 victory over the Deacons in hardball, while other Elephants were beating Kirkland in softball...
McInnis has Bob Ward, who stopped Amherst on three hits last Wednesday, ready for the Crusaders. Barry, will start right-hander Jim O'Neil, and can use lefty Dick Dogdon, who pitched a no-hit game Saturday against Springfield, for relief...