Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth inning, with the Dodgers coasting along on a 2-0 lead, Left Fielder Sandy Amoros raced home from second on a blooping single. Monte Irvin's peg beat him to the plate. Umpire Pinelli spread his arms, palms down. Safe? Leo Durocher, the Giants' manager, boiled from the bench. Unaccountably astonished because Durocher and 27,297 fans had misunderstood him, Pinelli jerked his thumb over his shoulder and allowed that Amoros was out. Durocher simmered down. Dodger Manager Alston kicked up a brief fuss just for the record...
...later, in the last of the eighth. Now the Giants were ahead 5-4. The Dodgers had men on first and third-one out. At the plate, Jackie Robinson laid down a neat bunt to squeeze Runner Don Zimmer home. But Zimmer hesitated on the base path, playing it safe. Steaming across the infield, First Baseman Whitey Lockman scooped up the ball and whipped it home. "Yer out!" screamed Pinelli. "Yer crazy!" yowled Alston. And with half his team's help, he played some colorful variations on the same theme. "You too," said Pinelli, and Alston departed...
...evening he found the true clue was to bet on the number one dog. This hound has been trained to run by the rail. That makes him a safe bet since he's first to the inside post and closest to "jeep...
...more than wring the water out of local masses of susceptible clouds. Rainmaking might possibly start meteorological chain reactions, conjure up violent storms, bring blizzards whistling down from Canada, or even beckon hurricanes off the open sea. This possibility had a military angle: timely cloud-seeding from a safe distance might mess up the weather of an enemy country. Last week Meteorologist Dr. Jerome Spar of New York University laid this interesting ghost, or at least cut it down considerably, by reporting on the lack of success of the Navy's recently declassified "Project Scud." While maintaining a neutral...
...answer to such critics. "We believe that freedom in the College provides the best climate for the growth of toughminded, mature, and independent citizens," he said. "If the Dean's Office were to attempt to decide who would be allowed to speak to a Harvard organization, whose views were safe and whose weren't, the views of those permitted to speak would then carry Harvard's endorsement. Furthermore, it would be impossible in practice to agree on what speakers threatened to corrupt our youth. Some people would bar President Truman, other Senator Taft...