Word: pitcherful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pint Pitcher. Feeding on the hypocrisy are the bootleggers, who buy federal retail liquor tax stamps (420 of them this year) to keep in federal good graces, but who openly defy the state. The bootleggers buy whisky wholesale in such outlets as Joplin, Mo. or Dallas, have the cases broken down into "lugs" (packages) of three fifths or six pints each for easier handling, load the lugs into stock cars with heavy-duty rear springs (so the cops cannot detect any telltale sag). They use whatever they believe is the fastest new car available (Oldsmobiles this year in preference...
...such an atmosphere, the policeman's lot is an unhappy one. If he stops a recognized pint pitcher without cause and finds whisky, the case can be tossed out of court for lack of a search warrant. But if he goes after a warrant, the pint pitcher disappears. As fast as he raids and closes one package store, another opens. Police liquor details are inadequate; Tulsa attempts to stem a 30,000-case-per-month consumption with a three-man detail. As it was during national Prohibition, Oklahoma public opinion is more with the bootlegger than with the police...
...Newcombe, hapless goat of the Dodger defeat in the World Series, won the first Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in baseball to go with his plaque as National League's Most Valuable Player...
...Looking back over the big-league baseball season, sportswriters decided that the 27 victories with which Pitcher Don Newcombe won the Dodgers the pennant far outweighed his dismal failure in the World Series. By a margin of 40 points over his aging teammate, Pitcher Sal Maglie, Big Newk was named the National League's Most Valuable Player...
...Stanley Industries' "Bat-em Catch-em" ($10) an automatic pitcher, flings out plastic baseballs for more than 30 ft. for the young catcher or batter...