Word: tab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board of trustees. Branch Rickey is a working Methodist: he doesn't drink or cuss. His greatest oath is "Judas Priest." Not only has he an encyclopedic knowledge of the professional skills and foibles of the 500-odd ballplayers he controls, but he keeps an extensive tab on their private morals...
There are a few other Sophs you might tab, such as the picket-runners Billings, Tobin and Messer, and the running guard, "Spike" Sisson, and Bud Cushing, a whale of a center as Syracuse will attest, and the big tackle, Anderson. But I'm just about running to the end of my list...
...over the eyes; they had misfit helmets, tattered shoes, antediluvian weapons (Habe used an 1891, 20-lb. Remington). The first mild night air-raid revealed their cowardice: in an inn, when the lights went on again, steel helmets peeped shamefully from beneath the tables. One of dozens of Habe tab leaux: a shamed, helmeted face, trying to laugh it off, beside the knees of a peasant woman who had not moved from her chair...
...clothes and talk, is loud and cheap and I'm convinced that most of them, if they could get two more people to turn around and look at them, or could get their kisser in another toothpaste ad, a mention by a columnist or their picture in a tab, they'd do it naked...
Author Lyle foresaw "that Germany would try to become self-sufficient in order to head off the effects of a blockade in World War II. "Close scientific tab was kept on every garbage pail. War substitutes . . . were continued. . . ." Other Lyle predictions: ^ German mastery of the art of propaganda...