Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gone is the talented all day player immortalized in Saroyan's "Time of Your Life", and in his place now stands the casual sportsman standing by clattering machine, munching a hamburger, and running up a million, but still a losing point score...
...Europe the umbrella took the form of a program to liquidate non-Communist leaders in satellite states." You mean "murder"? Then why the soft word, the wiggle word, the euphemism? "Murder" is clear in meaning, one syllable and three letters more concise than this clumsy circumlocution which with ... a score or more of other obscure terms have oozed up from the quagmires of European political intrigue and diplomatic doubletalk...
...stopped the orchestra, looked up a passage in the score with his nose almost touching the page, and then, his darkest suspicions confirmed, whacked the score with his baton and shouted directions to the strings. He exhorted, implored and cursed in Italian. He sang a troublesome passage for the orchestra in his croaky voice. When the chorus mumbled, he said sharply, in Italianized English that was hard to understand: "Let me hear the words. There is not a word that has no meaning." For an erring violinist, he indulged his own brand of humor: "If you play that wrong Saturday...
...potential worth, claimed him. Stymie has since won $816,060 for Jacobs. The cream-and-brown King Ranch racing colors have won all but a few of the nation's major racing classics, including the Santa Anita Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes, the Saratoga Special, a score of others. Trainer Hirsch summed up what Kleberg was trying to do: "Either Assault or Stymie would make crack cow horses." In the words of a cattleman, "cow horses can start fast, turn on a dime and give you 9? change...
While the last seconds of the Eliot-Dudley basketball game yesterday meant a hair-breadth win for Eliot by 33 to 32, the last half of the Lowell-Adams game was merely a stretching of Lowell's long lead at half-time. The Bellboys ended ahead by a score...