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Shifting Line-Up. As the season wore on, Durocher made a series of radical shifts, fumbling for the right combination. Outfielder Bobby Thomson, a Scottish-born introvert, was brought back into the thick of things at the third base "hot corner." His slumping batting average boomed from .226 to .289. Monte Irvin, jittery in an unfamiliar first base position, was moved to the outfield. Outfielder Whitey Lockman was switched to first. Irvin's batting average jumped 50 points, and he ended the season leading the league in runs batted...
...Horrible Great Beastie." After this defeat, the monster lay doggo for more than 1,000 years. At any rate, the people who lived near the loch did not think it worth reporting. Since most Scottish lochs, they believed, had water kelpies, why shouldn't Loch Ness have one? His Grace the Duke of Portland noted in 1885 that his ghillies were quite familiar with a "horrible great beastie" in Loch Ness...
...week's end, before the Scottish Labor Party conference at North Berwick, Attlee pleaded for party unity (later in the week, Bevan promised to "close ranks," support the government during the campaign). Attlee decried his Conservative opponent Winston Churchill as "a very old-fashioned politician...
...whole generation of Britons would agree with Matania that the picture, commissioned by a Scottish firm "for a calendar or something," was a shocking waste of talent. Matania's place in 20th Century British art may not be high, but it is reasonably secure: nobody in his day drew pretty, scantily draped girls more to the British fancy...
Coventrians, who had first look at the entries, expressed their contempt in a colorful string of nicknames: "the grand piano," "the Kremlin," "the pork pie," "the egg-in-a-cup," "the beehive." Even the winning entry, a conservatively modern stone, glass, concrete and steel structure by Scottish Architect Basil Spence, was compared unenthusiastically to a cinema, a factory and a block of flats...