Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hitless in the first three games, Joe talked his troubles over with Old Slugger Lefty O'Doul. O'Doul told Joe that he was taking his eye off the ball and swinging high. Joe changed his stance, and the Yankees began to roll. In the fourth game, DiMaggio exploded with a single and a homer. In the fifth, he connected for two singles, setting the stage for Rookie Infielder Gil McDougald's grand-slam homer, and smacked a two-run double that completed the worst World Series rout in 15 years...
...World War II's end, when gloomy Sewell Avery began predicting collapse, Baker set his sights on expansion, began adding more new products. Most recent: rock wool "blankets" for home insulation and a simple roll-on method of refinishing old walls with colored plaster. This year, after spending $41 million on new plants in the postwar years, Baker expects his sales to reach a record $90 million (almost half of U.S. Gypsum), although taxes will trim his net from 1950's $9,200,000 to about $6,600,000. Despite rearmament's curbs on building, he expects...
...just taken a three-game whipping from the Dodgers. Through the dressing-room door, the Giants could hear the Dodger cries of derision: "Eat your heart out, Leo ... So that's your kind of team. Well, you can have it." Then the Dodgers started chanting a rollicking song: "Roll out the barrel, we've got the Giants on the run." Over in a corner, a reporter asked Durocher if he planned any line-up changes. Leo raised his raspy voice for all the players to hear: "No changes! This is still my kind of team. If they...
Several million dollars worth of beauty, brains, and brass will roll into the Square Friday morning as the Hollywood good-will caravan visits Cambridge, 15 limousines strong...
...years 1946 through 1949, McCarthy had reported an overall loss every year. "How did you live, Senator?" asked the attorney. Roared McCarthy: "None of your business . . . Pearson is suing because I have exposed him as a mouthpiece of the Communist Party." Just then, a summons came for a Senate roll call on the tax bill. McCarthy snapped up his briefcase and stalked...