Word: put
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first seven games, he hit three home runs, scored nine runs, drove in nine more, and batted .467, as the Giants won six to stay in first place. To get Willie's smooth, uncoiling swing into the lineup. Manager Bill Rigney willingly put him on first base in place of another 21-year-old slugger: Orlando Cepeda, the Giants' leading hitter (.315), the National League's first baseman for both All-Star Games, and the team's most popular player with San Francisco fans. Puerto Rican-born Cepeda is roaming the daisies in leftfield, where...
...used his right-handed power only against left-handed pitching. Rocky sought out Bragan and blurted: "If you let me play regular, I'll hit 35 home runs and knock in 100 runs." Bragan promptly tipped off the sportswriters, stuck Rocky in the line-up to let him put up or shut up. "The minute I said it I knew I made a mistake," says Rocky. "But with God's help I hit 41 homers and I drove in 113 runs." The boy from The Bronx had become a star...
Where the ministers become the strict ones is in the practical application of church teaching. Most of the ministers agree that it is a sin to waste time (80%), that foreign missionaries should not merely confine themselves to "preaching the Gospel" (more than 70%), and that the U.S. should put the needs of underdeveloped lands ahead of its own desires in giving technical and economic aid (82%). In each case, the percentage of laymen who went along was much smaller. Widest disparity: wasting time, an indulgence that only about half of the laymen consider sinful...
...them, and they had a faint but familiar facsimile of their old man's talent. They also had a fierce urge to prove that they could make it on their own. So Bing Crosby's four sons-Gary, 26, twins Dennis and Phil, 25, and Lindsay, 21-put together a family-style act of songs and smart-aleck chatter and started right at the top of the nightclub circuit. The Crosby boys blew into Las Vegas' Sahara nightclub last month, after three successful weeks at Chicago's Chez Paree, on the greatest burst of friendly publicity...
...settle the matter mano a mano (hand to hand), Dominguin returned to the ring after three years of retirement to put his younger rival in his place. A longstanding and well pressagented public "feud" seemed to make the men enemies, although they are actually brothers-in-law and close personal friends. But feud or no, the fighting has been magnificent. Ordoñez, with his sweeping circulares, has been turning bulls into nosing calves. More than once, Dominguin has gone to his knees and performed his showstopper, el teléfono: leaning casually on the bull's head...