Word: windup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California's Eddie Machen, a stylish, stand-up heavyweight with no more imagination than a windup toy, took less than one round to prove that Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson is still the durable but inept clown who was all but separated from his senses by World Champion Floyd Patterson. But having put Jackson on the deck, Machen couldn't keep him there. Half-blinded, hardly able to manage the ludicrous war dance he likes to use to "unlazy his legs," Tommy kept coming back to tag his tormentor with occasional punches. After ten rounds, Tommy's manager, Lippy...
...windup of fall House sports yesterday, Winthrop defeated Dudley 20-0 and Leverett shutout Lowell 6-0 in football. In soccer, Eliot squeezed by Adams 1-0 while Kirkland won a defaulted game from Winthrop...
...without cash on the barrelhead, that the only thing Turkey has plenty of is yok (nothing). They complained that Menderes had suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were festive rather than bitter, and wonderfully reminiscent of U.S. campaign rallies except that vendors hawked raisin cakes instead of hot dogs, and the music was supplied by singsong flutes instead of brass bands...
...sinker. More important, he is still improving the impressive control that made him the first of this season's 20-game winners and made him one of the six baseball pitchers to win 20 games eight times or more. The pitches he throws from his high-kicking windup are almost always on target. "My Dad had a theory about pitching," says Spahn. "He used to say that if you learned to throw properly, you could pitch forever without hurting your...
Pitchers, who in the early days had been allowed to sling the ball out of a windmilling windup, were eventually held down to a single rotation of the arm. As the ball was hardened to speed up the game, gloves appeared, and softball finally settled down as a small-scale, frenetic version of America's national game...