Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looked like a refugee from a Ma and Pa Kettle movie. Sporting a straw hat, brown shoes, freckles, and $4 straw suitcase, he walked out of Commerce, Okla., and into the pin-striped uniform of the New York Yankees. Now, 18 seasons and 2,401 games later, Mickey Mantle put on a $155 pair of black alligator shoes, slipped into a $150 plaid sport jacket, and announced that he was retiring from baseball...
Anyway that was the start of The Meaning of Meaning, and its definition chapter was to lead Ogden into inventing and working out Basic English. It is a curiously pin-pointed starting-point, a two hour conversation on definitions interrupted by a bats-wing gas-burner...
...match is slow and too-obviously staged, or if the pin comes too soon and the action isn't humiliating enough, the crowd registers its disapproval. They boo. The Garden fans become very annoyed if they don't get their money's worth of entertaniment...
...freshman meet, a pin by Brown's heavyweight wrestler gave the Bruins a 22-16 win over the Yardlings...
Leverett gunner John Ballantine kept his team one pace in front of Winthrop the entire fourth period with pin-point accuracy from the floor. Winthrop is still in first place, six points in front of Adams House...