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...batter. "From the time he starts to lean to the time he goes into his delivery,'' says Wills, "I've taken two extra steps." He wastes no time trying to taunt a pitcher-"I don't wanna be a jumpin' jack. If I rile those pitchers, they'll be more anxious to get me than the batter." Even so. says Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, Wills's mere presence on base "can raise the batting average of the man behind him in the line-up by 20 or 30 points." Explosion of Dust...
...President is obviously seeking broad public support to speed his antirecession measures through a slow-moving Congress. His major legislative proposals -with the exception of the minimum wage increase-do not rile most Republicans. Neither do the executive actions that he announced during the week: his Administration will accelerate defense procurement, federal highway and post office construction, the payment of income tax refunds and the award of Government contracts to small business in depressed areas. All those devices, tried and proved by the Republican Administration in the recessions of 1954 or 1958, would channel more spending money into the consumer...
Germany's Lutherans are strong for reunification of Germany, and in order not to rile the Communists against their Eastern brethren, they refrained from anti-Communist talk in speeches. Instead of bitterness at the Red regime, Lutherans displayed a tendency to look upon its repressions as divine punishment. Said Director Johann Schonherr of the Pastoral Seminary in East Germany's Brandenburg: "If today, in one part of Germany, the church loses many of its old privileges, the church must see this as God's way of regenerating it ... The church must suffer with its people, must share...
Other minor errors also rile Gruber. "You don't shoot a man in the throat, and you don't kill him with a pitchfork or an ax," he argues. "We had a script here where the hero was killed with a pitchfork and I changed it to shooting. That very same week Jim [Gunsmoke] Arness killed two men with a pitchfork. That's not an honest western...
Broken Commandments. Such puns often rile some viewers into protests. But the Last Word puts up happily with Brown's observation on slurred speech ("To slur is human") or Guest Panelist S. J. Perelman's near classic, "I've got Bright's disease-and he's got mine.'' What riles the audience more is Scholar Evans' zest for breaking old grammatical commandments. Evans accepts "it is me," prefers "ain't" to the awkward "am I not," thinks it fine to occasionally split infinitives, regards prepositions as good things to end sentences...