Word: plate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most without having to get a hit. In a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates two weeks ago, he drew three walks. Fourth time up he announced: "I'll make 'em walk me again." Then he went into his dance. While Pitcher Johnny Lanning tried to find the plate, Brooklyn's brat writhed, wiggled, squatted and crowded the plate. Umpire George Barr ordered Stanky to get back in the batter's box and behave. When the count got to three balls and two strikes, Stanky carefully fouled off any pitch that came near the plate, finally...
Stanky trotted smugly off to first base, after first carefully dropping the bat, as usual, squarely across home plate, as an added insult to the enemy. Pirate Catcher Al Lopez hurt his toe kicking it halfway to the pitcher's box. Stanky's fourth walk soon became Brooklyn's winning...
...only Harvard representative on the Eastern club, Swegan started at shortstop, giving way to West Virginia's John Fox later in the game. He went hitless in two trips to the plate, handled four chances cleanly, and was charged with one error. A member of the recently deactivated NROTC program, Swegan will not take part in the second game of the Yale series, scheduled for New Haven on June 24. It is expected that he will soon return to his pre-service alma mater, Bowling Green...
...Protestantism is gaining members. It is collecting more money from them, too, and the average contribution for the collection plate is up. Last fortnight Everyone, Presbyterian quarterly, published the United Stewardship Council statistics for 1945.† Reports from 18 top Protestant denominations showed a net membership gain over 1944: 563,866 (2.2%); increase in gifts: $62,997,968 (14.9%); increase in per capita contributions...
...disgusting a radio commercial may be, it's O.K. if it hits the spot. Then he emptied a carafe of water over the table (drenching the knocking knees of several hirelings)-to illustrate that any other kind of commercial is "all wet." Finally, he removed his dental plate and wagged it in Vic's face, growling menacingly: "I can see you've already got your teeth in our problem. See what I mean...