Word: rocker
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...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...
Robert Fox Bacher (rhymes with rocker), 41, head of nuclear research at Cornell University, one of the scientists who assembled the first atomic bomb. Cool, deliberate, diplomatic, Bacher is regarded by his colleagues as one of the country's half-dozen leading nuclear physicists...
...Fredrick Rocker Willson, Jr. (Bio chemical Sciences...