Word: whack
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season entered its final week, baseball was alive and kicking, and the National and American League pennant fights getting more hair-raising day by day. The Brooklyn Dodgers, whose revitalized pitchers were suddenly throwing more strikes, fewer home-run balls, rolled into St. Louis for their final whack at the front-running Cardinals. They led with their ace, Pitcher Don Newcombe, and lost a heartbreaker, 1-0. Then, instead of curling up, they walloped the Cardinals in the next two, the last time to the roaring tune of 19-6, and rolled out of St. Louis only half a game...
...already heavily engaged on the foreign front, trying to work out a way of saving Britain's dwindling dollar reserves (see INTERNATIONAL) . Back on Capitol Hill, Maryland's Millard Tydings let it be known last week that his Senate Armed Services Committee had presidential permission to whack almost a billion dollars out of the armed forces' budget...
...Detroit River last week, in the first heat of motorboating's famed Gold Cup race, the foot throttle in "Wild Bill" Cantrell's boat went out of whack. The 1,710 horses in his mahogany-hulled boat relaxed; My Sweetie came almost to a stop. Wild Bill, a veteran of Indianapolis' 500-mile auto race, quickly reached under his dashboard for the gasoline-control rod, finished the heat with one hand on the wheel and the other on the throttle rod. After that, the last two heats were easy. After repairs, Wild Bill and My Sweetie...
...milligrams of progesterone, an ovarian hormone, to 25 pregnant rats. His purpose was to cause cancer; instead, the rats developed eclampsia. It was the first time the disease had been produced experimentally in animals. What Dr. Symeonidis had done was to throw the hormonal balance out of whack. Microscopic slides showed that the rats had suffered changes in liver, kidneys and placenta that human eclampsia patients suffer...
...fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth innings while the Crimson touched him for two singles in the ninth. The visitors loaded the bases in the fifth and had two man on in the seventh only to have popups end the rally. There was no Chip Gannon to whack a homer this year and Godin, though adequate, was not sparkling. He struck out five to make the new EIBL strikeout record...