Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last week, price ceiling violators have usually gotten away with light taps on the wrist in court. Last week OPS clubbed a violator on the head. It fined New York's Barium Steel Corp. and two subsidiaries, Central Iron & Steel and Phoenix Iron & Steel, a whacking $1,011,-123.63. It was by far the biggest OPS fine yet levied. It was also another black eye for Central Iron & Steel whose activities had figured in Washington's mink-coat scandal a year and a half...
...again cried "Naughty" with keenest indignation. She turned the page. Her eyes and sharp little nose were directed at the next sentence on the top of the new page even before she had turned it. "Naughty, come back at once." The baby, still in mid-prance, even curving one wrist in an affected manner which horse- sculptors could only envy, looked back over its shoulder at the nurse. Its face, rosy and polished, had no more expression than an apple. Then it crawled straight off the rug. The nurse looked up from her book and gave a shrill...
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...another American League development, Bobby Shantz, 24-game winner for the Philadelphia A's, suffered a broken wrist when he was hit on the wrist by a ball pitched by the Washington Senator's Walt Masterson. The little left-hander who was scheduled to pitch against the Yankees on Sunday will be lost for the rest of the season...
Shantz was batting in the second inning yesterday when Masterson's fast ball struck him on the left wrist. Although doubled up in pain, the 5'6" pitcher took his place on first base and wanted to continue pitching. He had a 3 to 0 lead, and seemed a sure bet for his 25th win of the year...