Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days there were offers and counteroffers. Then the haggling came to an end and the Giants proudly announced that they had taken on Boston's talented young (26) Shortstop Alvin Dark and his garrulous sidekick, aging (32) Second Baseman Ed Stanky. Leo Durocher seemed principally pleased to get Stanky, who had played for him in Brooklyn. Said the Lip: "Stanky'll drive the pitcher daffy. He'll drop his bat on the catcher's corns. He'll sit on you at second base, sneak a pull at your shirt, step on you, louse...
Elat on his back with a fever of 104, the local depester gasped a call for a visit from his system-playing sidekick, who showed up well before post time with a notebook-full of racing forms and large, coarse bills...
...They make the rules and I'll have to abide by them," said Davis. His All-America sidekick on Army's unbeatable teams, "Doc" Blanchard, had made no attempt to get out: he seemed happy as a flying officer in the Air Force. Davis, who is in the infantry, now plans to serve a few more years in the Army, then try again to get out. Said he: "I won't play pro football if I've got to lay off for three more years Maybe I'll coach. I don't know right...
...there was plenty of work for the champ to do. There was also some relaxing to do, and Big Jake finally found time to read the last pages of a thriller-diller western called Magic of a Killer's Name. Dexer the Cowboy and his sawed-off sidekick. Long Tom, were blowing some varmints to kingdom come...
...browned and his legs a little bowed-although he had never been closer to a horse than the bettors' booths on a race track. Just the same, the western he was reading had its points of similarity with his own situation. Ted Schroeder would be his sawed-off sidekick, of course, and they sure would put those varmints to rout, just like in the book...