Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OGPU? ... He [knows] how to recognize the agents of the OGPU," for he has had enough experience with them. But this time it is the Gestapo, which wishes him to become a Russian Lord Haw-Haw. Stepanoff gathers together the tag-ends of heroism, starves himself and cuts his wrist...
This spring training, coasting along, Kiner is experimenting with a "standing swing": planting his feet a yard apart at the plate, and belting the ball without stepping into it. This unnatural stance (also used by Joe DiMaggio) takes maximum wrist-snap and timing. Kiner still hasn't got it down right. Against Feller, he struck out once, flied out once. But he expects to top his 51-homer mark this season, earn his 200% raise (to about...
After robbing David E. Nudd 1GB of 40 cents and a wrist watch three youths heaved him off the John Weeks Memorial bridge into the Charles early yesterday morning to "teach him to carry more money...
John M. Bullitt '43.1G, who was favored to take the 145-pound championship, had to retire from competition after winning his trial bout, because of a sprained wrist. According to Intercollegiate Rules, his opponent, Matthew J. Peppard '51 will take his place tomorrow...
...those who "are strong in the faith," he has a smile and words of encouragement. "We shall win the elections with God's help-it's Christ against Mammon." But encountering one whose faith he judges to be wavering, Don Francesco, with a flick of a powerful wrist, lowers the umbrella on the miscreant's head. "You didn't come to the theater last night, Nicola," he says, or "Agata, your girl hasn't learned her lines...