Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treating of life in a Midwest pajama factory, the show makes a sit-down strike over wages seem the next thing to a strawberry festival, while the head of the business and the head of the union are not so much contrasted bosses as brother oafs. Since in musicomedy the course of true love never can run smooth, in this one, Management (John Raitt) Meets Labor (Janis Paige), Management Fires Labor, then, with a little more dexterous management, rehires and weds her. En route there are small blobs and faint glimmers of satire, the usual doings at shop and picnic...
Toward the end of last season, after two years in the Army, he got a chance with the St. Louis Browns (now Baltimore's Orioles). Turley won only two and lost six with the hapless Browns, but his strike-out record was impressive: 61 in 60 innings...
Last week his strike-out record was still impressive: 53 in 51 innings, leading the American League. And though fireballers are notoriously wild, Turley has only given up 29 walks and has a minuscule earned-run average of 1.76. Part of the credit for Turley's new-found control goes to Baltimore's Pitching Coach Harry ("The Cat") Brecheen, Turley's roommate on road trips. Says Brecheen: "He has all the equipment he needs. He has size, strength, head and heart. All he requires is experience. He'll be a great...
During the Depression Murchison and his partners kept right on expanding. He formed the American Liberty Oil Co., so named in protest at the Government cuts in oil production (prorating) to reduce the surplus caused by the big East Texas oil strike of 1930. Murchison himself was hard hit by that strike, had to shut down some of his wells for four years. Nevertheless, he battled proration in the courts and lost. Murchison now grudgingly admits that proration makes oil-producing cheaper, but still opposes...
...supported by an infield as jittery as he. Bill Cleary, the first batter, grounded to the shortstop, Don Prohovich, who was unable to field it cleanly. It went as an error. Ned Felton, batting for Don Butters, forced Cleary at second, and after George Anderson looked at a third strike, George MacDonald ended it all with a skow roller down the third baseline, which third baseman Tom Yasenki charged and flipped underhand to first to nip him by a step...