Word: tenpin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twice, trying to knock down a lone pin, he committed the amazing error of guttering the ball, like any Thursday-night office league dub. The crowd jeered. Not until Wilman's last ball was bowled was the championship decided. Joe needed a strike to win, and left the tenpin standing...
Over he went like a hard-hit tenpin. He scrambled up again, clubbed Mrs. O'Brien with his gun. That was the last she remembered. When she came to, her assailants had gone. She grabbed the telephone, screamed: "Help-police-holdup...