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Word: whats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What was wrong with Stengel's Yankees was all right with seven other American League managers. For years the National League has had all the excitement-and 1959 is no exception, with a five-team pack nipping regularly at the Milwaukee Braves. But in the American League, a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Descent from Olympus | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Dig That Gate. By week's end the Fourth of July standings left the Yankees teetering in fourth place by virtue of virtuous Bob Turley's one-hitter against Washington. What happens next is anyone's guess. It may not be baseball, but the fans love it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Descent from Olympus | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

What was more, she had won only a single major title (the Italian in 1958).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: South of the Border | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Their dash made them look more like drunks in a conga line. In the thin air, no one could lurch more than 15 steps without rest. The final 400 ft. were up a near-vertical snow wall; somehow they made it, and there was the slender bamboo pole that had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great One | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Close to Horror. What the sickniks dispense is partly social criticism liberally laced with cyanide, partly a Charles Addams kind of jolly ghoulishness, and partly a personal and highly disturbing hostility toward all the world. No one's flesh crawled when Jack Benny carried on a running gag about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Sickniks | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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