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This was the big inning Casey was shooting for. It hardly seemed to matter that it could have been bigger. Gil McDougald could be forgiven for failing to tag third and score on Mantle's long fly to right. Casey could even overlook Billy Martin's first-inning bobble that had given the Sox their run. (No sooner had Billy received the Babe Ruth Award for his outstanding performance in the 1953 Series, when he let a routine grounder scoot through his legs.) The Indians might win in Boston, but the Yanks would still be right on their...
...rebellion's sake is an outmoded adolescent cliche. Friends find him a hard man to know, perhaps because he is without capacity for the sustained and often neurotic introspection in which writers often indulge. If all this makes him a conformist, he is willing to bear the tag, provided that the accent is on the second syllable. Says Wouk: "One must impose a form on life...
...direction, the ground beacon's pulses pass through a revolving (15 revolutions per second) antenna system that relies on two concentric cylindrical rings, one mounted with a single rod-shaped element, the other fitted with nine rods. Whirling around the antenna core, these rods, set at different modulations, "tag" (modulate) the signals as they go out. Every time the inner rod passes "zero" (north), a regulating signal is transmitted. In a sense, this signal is Tacan's compass needle. The airplane's Tacan separates all the signals, computes their differences, and, all without a sound, converts...
...Roman Catholic who intends remaining in the faith even if every Catholic including the Pope quits, I disapprove of Fathers Kunkel and Varga's Marilyke tag drive . . . A mother and daughter who believe in modesty do not have to read a tag on a dress to tell if it is modest...
...middle of chapter six, a heart attack ended his life at 44. Almost nobody came to the bare funeral home where his body lay. But his old friend Dorothy Parker did. Her hard-boiled epitaph, too strong for last week's radio show, echoed Fitzgerald's own tag line to The Great Gatsby. Looking at the corpse, she said, "The poor son of a bitch...