Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarcely wasting a pitch. Only once, against Pee Wee Reese in the first inning, did he go to a full count on a batter. His sharp curves found the plate as if they had eyes. He needed no more than 97 pitches (71 of which were in the strike zone) to dispose of the absolute minimum of 27 Dodger hitters, and not a single Dodger got to first base. While the crowd watched tensely, the Dodgers put up their 27th batter. Pinch Hitter Dale Mitchell. He took a ball, then a called strike, missed a curve for strike...
...Newcombe, who had started four World Series games, lasted through none. Tormented by the fate that dogged him in the big ones. Big Newk unwound with all he had. When he was on target, his fast ball hummed into life, but when he was wide of the strike zone, he was not wide enough. Even the pitches he wanted to waste hung close to the plate. Squat Yogi Berra, the best fastball hitter in the majors, whacked one of them for a homer in the first inning, another into the stands in the third. After that, the tense series degenerated...
Like most Englishmen of his caste, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan frowns on public displays ot deep emotion, but when the spirit moves him he has a ringing voice and a rolling turn of phrase that can strike sparks in even the most phlegmatic audience. Last week, as he faced 300 reporters in one of his rare press conferences, debonair Harol Macmillan was under the spell of a vision that gave him eloquence. "I have seen in my lifetime the steady Balkanization and disruption of Europe." he said. "Europe has suffered wars. It has torn itself...
...participation of non-student elements, particularly union workers. These are the people who feel most acutely the economic presence of the Negro. They are also the people who can compensate for more through the feelings of superiority which the Negro's subservient position permits them. Adept at strike tactics, these ardent white supremacists were more than a match for police, and, of course, the University had no control over them whatsoever...
...wasn't necessary to call a strike for that little difference for the butchers," Stefani said after the meeting...