Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luckey Strike. The announcement, which many a Californian took to mean that he was wild to be governor and hoped to use the office as a springboard for the presidency, was just what was needed to get California politics tuned to its standard note of discord. It re-opened a party quarrel which had begun when Jimmy tried to scuttle Truman for Eisenhower. It also emphasized the rift between Jimmy and E. George Luckey, who as a faithful Trumanite had replaced Jimmy as leader of the state's Democrats...
...Pitch. That was about as far as hot-tempered, brawling Leo Durocher dared to go, whatever the provocation. Baseball's $50,000-a-year Commissioner "Happy" Chandler already had two strikes on The Lip for past crimes and misdemeanors; another brawl would be strike three and out. In 1947, Chandler had suspended Durocher for the season for "conduct detrimental to baseball." Twice recently he had disciplined Lippy for minor offenses: for hiring Coach Fred Fitzsimmons when Fred's old club wasn't looking, and for a pre-season row with an umpire...
Adams, possessor of the top pitcher of the House League, Roger Davis, came up with another good hurler yesterday. He is Herb Mercer, and his 15 strike-out total was the deciding factor in the win over Eliot...
...that juncture-although Dennis' refusal to talk had been expected-among the few available substantiated facts on him were these: he had been born Francis Waldron in Seattle in 1904 or 1905 and had a part in the 1941 Allis-Chalmers strike in Milwaukee. Starting with these scanty clues, Chicago Bureau Chief Hugh Moffett and Correspondent Ben Williamson set out, respectively, for Milwaukee and Seattle. Almost at once they began to turn up leads...
Laski is not a newcomer to Harvard. In 1916 he came here from London to teach Political science and to study at the Law School. During the Boston police strike of 1919 he publicly expressed sympathy with the strikers, and drew a storm of protest from the Boston public. President Lowell defended him before the public, but reprimanded him privately. Laski returned to London a year later...