Word: swats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...libs was a roundhouse swing at the "prima donnas" in the world -"there are a great number of prima donnas in the world"-which many interpreted as a swat at Charles de Gaulle, who had refused to meet him at Algiers (TIME, Feb. 26). And in describing his post-Yalta travels he said: "Of the problems of Arabia, I learned more about that whole problem, the Moslem problem, the Jewish problem, by talking with Ibn Saud for five minutes, than I could have learned in exchange of two or three dozen letters...
Tongue Sandwich. At bat, Josh Gibson has a peculiar habit: he rolls up his tongue and sandwiches it, like a hot dog, between his lips. Thus fortified, he can swat a ball a country mile. In 1938, playing against the Memphis Red Sox, he connected for four home runs in a single game. In 1930, in Monessen, Pa., he smashed a homer officially measured at 513 ft.* In a recent doubleheader at Griffith Stadium, he hit three home runs, one for a distance of 485 ft. Last week Gibson led both Negro leagues with a batting average...
This time no one seriously doubted that Bennett Clark, having had his swat, would have to let the confirmation slide through...
...Swat the Government. The voice of big, sandy-haired, well-fed Fulton Lewis, one of the nation's better known news commentators, reaches a conservatively estimated 2,500,000 pairs of adult ears per night. Sixty-odd sponsors shell out $2,500 a week for his views, which are aired by 155 stations of the Mutual Network (Mon. through Fri., 7 p.m. E.W.T.). Special broadcasts and lecture tours add an additional $1,500 a week to his income...
...taking the easy way out by working through industry committees, which probably would have been more efficient. He had picked some lemons on his staff: some of the forms they dreamed up were nearly as complicated as critics made out. And, though any price and rationing boss must frequently swat the public and politicians, no public official should seem to enjoy it so much...