Word: windup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When she was done coiling into a figure-eight windup and uncoiling curves, change-ups and fastballs, Bertha Ragan, 35, had again showed she was the greatest pitcher in women's softball by throwing four shutouts (including one no-hitter) to lead her Raybestos Brakettes of Stratford, Conn, to their second successive championship on their home field in the 26th World Softball tournament...
...windup press conference last week in Moscow, Harriman gave out next to nothing of his visit with Khrushchev. Instead, he defended, with practiced diplomatic finesses, the integrity of the U.S. exhibit in Moscow's Sokolniki Park. "We would be stupid to present anything except for what it is represented to be." Then, only slightly chastened by Communist China's polite refusal to grant him a visa, Reporter Harriman headed for Paris -where all good foreign correspondents go for rest and rehabilitation-before undertaking his next journalistic assignment : a textpiece for LIFE Magazine...
Oedipal Wreck. Ensuing events follow each other to confusion like derailed freight cars. They involve the sergeant's stepfather, a Senator who trades on his war wound and resembles McCarthy as played by Lou Costello, and his mother, a megalomaniac who maneuvers the Senator like a windup toy and makes an Oedipal wreck...
...Boulris is back on the beam again this afternoon, the varsity may give Yale's rather undistinguished pitching staff a rough time. The Eli hurlers who were on display here three weeks ago showed a lot of windup but very little in the way of dazzling pitching...
Holy Cross coach Jack Barry, saving his two first line hurlers for Saturday, stubbornly refused to take out Malinowski who was singularly ineffective. He had an impressive windup but his invariable semi-fast ball was an easy target for the Crimson...