Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Willie Mays, rookie centerfielder, only 20 and a little bewildered by the big time, struck out wildly, booted routine fly balls, and got only one hit in his first 26 times at bat. Durocher stuck loyally with the youngster, and Willie, a natural hitter with speed to spare, responded to such good effect that he ended up as the likeliest candidate for the National League's rookie-of-the-year...
...Giants, on the other hand, regularly use five outfielders and a second-base combination they got in trade for two more outfielders. And now when they need a spare outfielder, they use a third-baseman...
...printed programs run a back-page column of critical comments, listed under two headings, "Figs" and "Thistles." Sample thistles on the back page last week: "Dull Roof Concert Dredges Up Bores" (Los Angeles Times); "Within the seven minutes it takes to perform, [a quartet by Webern] is spare, economical, terse and austere, and seven minutes too long" (Los Angeles Daily News). But most of the time, the critics throw figs...
...nine papers), 46-year-old Texan Mewhinney does not regard himself as a columnist but as a "pick & shovel newspaperman," and still spends part of his week as a rewrite man. But his vast curiosity and freewheeling pedantry make him an ideal man for Meeting All Comers. In his spare time, he reads Latin, has taught himself to play the piano and has become a self-confessed authority on arrowhead making, jazz, Government regulations, paleontology, ornithology and coon-hunting...
...wanted to change the initials after his name from V.P. to M.A. He had been dreaming about it ever since he graduated from Yale in 1903. But until last week Ziegler Sargent of New Haven could never spare the time...