Word: sluggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verbal slugfest with the Eisenhower Administration, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, the onetime Marquette University light-heavyweight boxer, had taken a solid punch on the jaw. Last week Senator McCarthy's committee colleagues moved in to separate the assailants. Taking advantage of the bell, Slugger McCarthy took off as scheduled on a Midwestern speaking tour, hoping that a change of pace and of subject would help him recover from damage done by the Army's chronicle of the case of Private David Schine. But the bell came too late to avert physical exhaustion: two days later Joe McCarthy was stricken...
...public hearing. Suddenly Stevens marched out without telling Hensel, Seaton or anyone else that he was going to a meeting with McCarthy and without taking an adviser with him. At this point, the press of the world had Stevens poised, in fighting pose, ready to take on the Wisconsin slugger...
...hour later, when Marilyn and former New York Yankee Slugger Joe DiMaggio, 39, arrived at San Francisco's city hall, their secret was known to a milling crowd of fans jammed in the third-floor corridor. Newsmen and photographers kept the couple busy for half an hour. "Hey Joe," they shouted, "kiss her again!" (He did.) "How many children you going to have?" Joe: "We expect one; I guarantee that." Marilyn: "I'd like to have six." The ceremony, before Municipal Court Judge Charles Peery, lasted only three minutes. Then the bride & groom dashed unwittingly down a dead...
...Pittsburgh, canny Branch Rickey, general manager of the Pirates, traded his most valuable gate attraction, Outfielder Ralph Kiner (and three other players) to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for six players and a bundle of cash. In Slugger Kiner, 30, the Cubs drew a home-run champion of the major leagues for the last six years, promptly put him to work in the same outfield with Hank Sauer who tied Kiner in homers last year (37). Chicago also picked up Kiner's $75,000 salary, second highest in baseball (after St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial's). Rickey...
PROVIDENCE, Feb, 7--A good boxer can always beat a mere slugger, but not when he can't move around...