Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...object of this acclaim takes his successes as calmly as his failures. Early in the season Turley pitched dramatic no-hit ball for eight and one-third innings against Cleveland, then lost the game 2-1 on a single and a home run by Larry Doby. Ordinarily, a pitcher would make crestfallen excuses. Not Turley. "I've always been amused," said he. "to read the statements pitchers make when something bad happens to them. 'The pitch got away from me.' they say. This one got away from me-350 feet away. I threw Doby the precise pitch...
...intimate painter who put mysterious delights in his pictures of commonplace people and things, Vuillard adapted to painting the poetic creed of his friend Stephane Mallarme:"To name an object is to do away with the three quarters of the enjoyment . . . which is derived from the satisfaction of guessing little by little: to suggest it, to evoke it-that is what charms the imagination." The imagination is consistently charmed by Vuillard's subtle, dreamy interiors, in which he weaves motifs as unobtrusively compelling as those in an oriental brocade. Missia and Thadée Natanson (opposite), painted about...
...Said the U.S. Supreme Court in the Teapot Dome case in 1927: "The only legitimate object the Senate could have in ordering the investigation was to aid it in legislating...
...this country without encountering so much as a lifted eyebrow, even if perchance he be a priest and wear a Roman collar. But if he wants an argument, one is to be had anywhere . . . and he will then learn that the church to which he belongs is an object of fear, suspicion, resentment, and more or less abrasive jocosity...
Sculling up the Charles, Stanley C. Baker and Edward A. Lottick were hailed from the bank below Weeks Bridge by an elderly couple, who pointed to an object afloat 30 feet off shore...