Word: umps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goalie Gordon Cogan was the standout ellboy player, but ump Hadley, Gus Putnam, and John Dwyer, the scorers for Lowell, equalled him offensively. Jim Noonan scored two assists for the winners. Fast-skating forwards Chet Hopkins and Bob Feloney sparked the Dudley attack...
...quite content that you should "own" the atomic bomb, kill the ump, boo the Dodgers and eat more steak than the unfortunates without your borders, but your mode of posing it in international magazines is (we think) not the very best way to win friends and influence people...
...steak and kill the ump...
Americans were beginning to understand what it meant to say: "I am an American." It meant more than owning the atom bomb, or having steak for dinner, or the inalienable right to yell "Kill the ump." It had begun to mean: "I am a citizen of a privileged and therefore obligated nation. I am no longer the prodigal son of Europe. I am my brother's keeper. But only free men can be my brothers...
...Columbus, Ohio, Frank Lane, president of baseball's American Association, ruled that a baseball player can swear at an umpire if the profanity 1) is used in a casual manner, 2) is not heard in the stands, and 3) does not cause the ump to lose his self respect...