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Word: southpaws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crown of his 33-year-old head, stalking his man as he always did-careful, tense, relentless. But whenever Big Joe got set, Jersey Joe danced nimbly out of range. He bobbed and weaved, dropped his guard, ambled to the left, then the right, jiggled his feet, turned southpaw at times. He backed up-but not into the ropes: he had too much ring smartness for that. Louis, always moving forward, looked like the aggressor, but for all the damage he did he might as well have had both hands in a sling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Man Who Wasn't Afraid | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Poskanzer, a southpaw himself, claims that ten percent of the college is being forced to adjust itself to a warped system which refuses to make allowances for these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Southpaws Get Together for 'Forgotten Minority' Protest | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

Back in the 1920s, Johnny Suggs was a better-than-average southpaw pitcher for the Atlanta Crackers. One day he met the boss's daughter, married her and quit pitching to run the concessions at the ball park. The night the ball park burned down, Johnny Suggs became a father. He and his new family moved 15 miles to Lithia Springs, Ga.; there Johnny took over a combined golf course and-picnic grounds. At three, his roly-poly daughter, Louise, was traipsing around the course after him, swinging at golf balls with a baseball grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Johnny Suggs's Daughter | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...easier to pick a man off the bag. Only a few great first basemen (among them the Cubs' Frank Chance and the Giant's George Kelly) were righthanded. But Robinson, with a tricky "scissors" pivot, manages to get rid of the ball as quickly as any southpaw first baseman in the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie of the Year | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...outer courts, prepping for a crack at next week's singles championship, were some 60 players-about 25 of them with foreign accents. England had sent Tony Mottram and Derrick Barton. France's Robert Abdesselam, Czechoslovakia's outstanding southpaw Jaroslav Drobny were there, along with India's entire Davis Cup team (Misra, Mohan & Mehta) and Sweden's and Belgium's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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