Word: rocker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remote Chaco, Texas-born George Lohman was slowing up a bit. His doctors had warned him about his heart and blood pressure, and had told him to stop riding. Last week, 59-year-old Ranchero Lohman was bossing his 960,000-acre cattle empire, Red Wells, from a veranda rocker...
Last week Hennenman was cleaner and safer than it had been for years, but Willem van Rensburg, the self-appointed health commissioner, was in a mental hospital for observation. Said one Hennenman shopkeeper: "Some say he's off his rocker, but I think he's all there. He did a fine job for the town...
...Mack had been both canny and lucky in picking his rookies and hand-me-downs. Almost half his team were castoffs from other clubs, picked up on waivers. Some experts thought that the old man had gone off his rocker when he ranked his current infield higher than his fabulous $100,000 (1911-14) four (Stuffy Mclnnis, Jack Barry, Home Run Baker, Eddie Collins). Said Oldtimer Collins: "Connie is kidding . . . pepping up his club to make it believe in itself...
...Chiang Kai-shek didn't take it. He insisted that Stilwell be replaced. Stilwell writes, "It looks very much as if they had gotten me at last. The Peanut has gone off his rocker and Roosevelt has apparently let me down completely. If Old Softie gives in on this, as he apparently has, the Peanut will be out of control from now on. . . . God help the next...
...second, fourth and fifth of the Olympic School Figures appearing with your article are drawn in accordance with standard practice, from the skater's viewpoint. Not so with the other two, the rocker and the three-change-three. They are drawn from an observing fish's viewpoint...