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Word: pennant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis Cardinals won their first National League Pennant in 18 years yesterday, with an 11-5 win over the New York Mets. The Cardinals will meet the American League champion New York Yankees in the World Series starting Wednesday. The Yankees clinched the American League title Saturday by beating Cleveland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cards Nip Mets, Win NL Pennant | 10/5/1964 | See Source »

...Cardinals went into the day tied with Cincinnati for first place, with Philadelphia a game behind. The Reds lost, 10-0, to Philadelphia yesterday, setting the stage for a three-way tie for the pennant had St. Louis lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cards Nip Mets, Win NL Pennant | 10/5/1964 | See Source »

Four games back of New York at week's end, Baltimore had done its best to back out of a pennant. The Phils were doing their best to back in. In first place for 123 out of 156 games so far this season, they were still on top, but barely. The Phils lost eight out of ten games, saw their lead shrink to a half-game over the red-hot (ten victories in their last eleven games) Cincinnati Reds, 1½ over the St. Louis Cardinals. With six more to play, two of them with the Reds and three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tale of Two Cities | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...Wooster, Ohio, Chance won 51 high school games, lost only one, signed a minor-league contract with-irony of ironies-the Baltimore Orioles. "It's a good thing the Orioles let him get away," sighed a Yankee player last week, "or there wouldn't be any pennant race at all." Drafted by the Angels in 1961, Chance won 27 games and lost 28 over the next two seasons, picked up a reputation as a slicker at snooker and gin, hit the gossip columns regularly by palling around with Playboy Pitcher Bo Belinsky. Last spring Chance announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Who Needs to See? | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...Conservative Party headed by ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, whose strategy apparently is to make it impossible for Pearson to govern. Diefenbaker set out to filibuster the flag to death. The Conservatives tore into the new flag as an insult to the "mother country," tagged it "Pearson's pennant," compared it to "the posterior of a bikini," a blanket for a race horse, a trademark for soap flakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Searching for Unity | 9/18/1964 | See Source »

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