Word: windup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blows thrown with almost the same motion as that used by a softball pitcher. More spectacular-looking than the shorter, deadlier uppercut, the bolo is telegraphed by its windup, hence is not normally effective as a knockout punch...
...Ready. This was the Air Force's intercontinental bomber at the ready last week. The free world's Sunday punch was getting its daily windup. These were the men and this was the weapon, which in Winston Churchill's words, form the one "effective deterrent" hanging over the heads of the Soviet Politburo-the likeliest reason why Russia's aggressors have so far started only a proxy war in Korea...
...though their tee shots generally cleared the bunkers, they got their full share of vexation on St. Andrews' wide, hard and bumpy greens. By week's end, nonetheless, two Americans had fought their way into the 36-hole final, to give the British Amateur an all-American windup for the second time in four years. They were 28-year-old Frank Stranahan of Toledo, Ohio, 1948 British Amateur winner, who had been hammering some of the longest shots of the week, and 39-year-old Dick Chapman, of Pinehurst, N.C., a 1947 finalist...
Griesinger then made the error of taking a full windup. Crosby, alert on third, went down on the next delivery, sliding in under Jim Irons' tag. Huntington fanned on the next pitch...
Expert Envoy. From Ottawa, Steinhardt traveled from one end of Canada to the other. When Canadian and U.S. troops finished Exercise Sweetbriar on the rim of the Arctic two months ago, he was on hand in bitter weather to watch the windup. He made friends officiating at such functions as the Stampede in Calgary and the dog derby in Ottawa...