Word: windup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four varsity crews are working out on the Charles this week in preparation for Tuesday's fall windup race, an annual event which marks the end of the fall crew season for the men in the varsity heavies...
...pensions were slyly slipped into law last July during the chaotic windup of the state legislature. They were spotted," weeks later, by the Massachusetts Federation of Taxpayers Associations, a privately sponsored research group. Among the findings...
...batter, narrow-eyed and tightlipped, leaned in toward the plate, and crouched to make a smaller target of his stocky little frame. He wriggled, fidgeted with his cap, hitched up his belt, got his feet dug in, began waggling his bat. Just as the pitcher started his windup, he let down the bat, stepped out of the box and elaborately wiped an imaginary speck out of his eye. The pitcher waited, ball clutched in his throwing hand. With a swagger, the batter walked over to the rosin bag, picked it up, dusted his hands and wiped them on the seat...
Then Taft turned his attention to the windup of the primary campaign in "internationalist" New Jersey. Both the Taft and Ike forces were jumpy over Jersey. Both tried hard to discount this week's results in advance...
...windup was stranger still for an Administration still raw from accusations of influence-peddling. Wrote Anderson-Allen: "I know that the President would be happy to have George Allen, as treasurer [of the archives campaign], drop in at the White House and show him your contribution...