Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guesses of anywhere from first to sixth place. Those St. Louis Cardinals had everybody wide-eyed. And the Braves would be hard to stop. As opening day drew near, the Brooklyn Dodgers had become the mystery team of the National League. And most of the mystery involved the rough-&-tough Leo Durocher, highest-paid manager in baseball, natty and noisy friend of the notorious, and great field general of America's national game...
...some of the headlines have not been the kind that look well in a scrapbook. There were the headlines in Philadelphia when Leo slugged a reporter. And the headlines about what happened in Leo's apartment while Leo was away: when Screen Tough George Raft won $18,000 from a gullible manufacturer in a wild-&-woolly crap game...
...Beat You." Says Branch Rickey: "Leo can't be found mollycoddling a situation. He has marvelous aptitude-whether shooting pool, playing golf or squash or gin rummy-but no classical education. His marks in deportment may not have been too good. He came out of a pretty tough neighborhood in Springfield, Mass. with great energy which boiled down to three words: 'I'll beat you, I'll beat...
Timed to coincide with America's get-tough-with-Russia policy and touched off by President Truman's pre-1948 political housecleaning blast, open season on all Communists of fact or fancy is now in full sway. Relies of Dies Committee days are back at their old stand on Capitol Hill, several state legislatures, including Massachusetts, are operating up-to-date star chambers, and in words strangely reminiscent of the days when Shirley Temple was labelled a dangerous red, Hollywood has been threatened with now investigations. Only the Cincinnati baseball team has escaped censure. Pounded for years from press...
...especially need spring work this year," Coach MacDonald commented, "because of the full schedule arranged for next year. It includes Army as the second game on the schedule. It is very difficult to get a team into any kind of shape for tough games early in the season unless you have had plenty of preparatory practice such as this spring's program is giving...