Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then in the seventh Bobby St. George doubled and Fred Karp singled him home. Drummey attempted a squeeze bunt but got to first when Varnum died around with his bunt down the third base line. Bartoiet singled to score Karp, and Huskle coach Tinker Connelly released Mullin from further mound duties...
...When it comes to voting in elections, these people are not worth a tinker's curse. Most of them really ought to go back to school. Let them go to the Kremlin and tell Mr. Khrushchev to ban his bomb...
...depends entirely on utility." As a practical people. Americans readily accepted this practical advice. Americans, he argues, feel that all their acts must serve some useful purpose, and when they do not, they feel guilty. Thus Americans work harder at their leisure than at their jobs, play bridge or tinker with their homes as intently as if the boss were watching. "It is in the privacy of our passing from kitchen to bedroom . . . that we are most conscious of a fundamental unease . . . The sense of going nowhere overtakes us precisely when we are going home...
...science books. New York City employs more teachers than any of 43 states; yet many suburbs have twice as many teachers per 1,000 students. And an influx of less "academically talented" Negroes and Puerto Ricans has made much city teaching more custodial than academic. While suburban teachers tinker with exciting experiments, city teachers grapple with remedial reading and "toilet patrol...
...seasons ago, when the Eli trio of Howe, Hetherington, and West (Tinker to Evers to Chance) came of age, it was generally said that Yale would mop up the league for the next three years. Brought up in the Philadelphia Marion Cricket Club, these three were already the top ranking juniors. And reports were that Yale was just as tough all the way down the squash ladder...