Word: throws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young woman (Shirley Temple) who believes in women's rights-especially the right to vote and to paint the nude human figure. Expelled from school for her outlandishly radical notions, Shirley returns home to disgrace her kindly clergyman-father (Robert Young), outrage her boy friend (John Agar), and throw the whole neighborhood into an uproar...
...racketeers who make & break them. Into normal screening time, it crams 80 climactic minutes of the career of Heavyweight "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan). At 35, Stoker needs only a couple of stiff jolts to the head to become a punch-drunk derelict. Unwittingly, he saves himself by refusing to throw a fight. When local racketeers have finished teaching him a lesson, Stoker's right fist is a broken mess and his fight career is ended once & for all. To his wife (Audrey Totter), it is a happy ending...
...office that appertains to his profession. If he were to sprinkle baptismal water upon the head of a child, I should expect its scalp to be scalded rather than hallowed ... If he were to preach a funeral sermon over my corpse, I believe that like Lazarus, I would throw aside the cerements of the grave and come back to life in indignant resurrection...
...Steve Howe took a line drive in short right field and overthrew first, trying for a double play. In the old style of play, this would have meant at least a two-base advance for the runner. Not so this year, apparently. Catcher Cliff Crosby appeared to catch the throw intact, as it were, and the situation remained under control...
...Teaching of Infield Play. After BU's Art Chartier had tripled firmly into darkest left-center, he committed the tactical error of attempting to score on a grounder to shortstop. Realizing the folly of this, he started back to third base when it became certain that Mort Dunn's throw would reach home before he did. Where the loving care enters is regarding the skill with which Crosby, Godin, and Mannino put Chartier in the hot box and then put him out. It's that sort of play that will enable McInnis to capitalize on Godin's good pitching when...