Word: yanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also makes more plausible the lengthy ensuing dialogue with his wife before She spots the daggers; and she finds that she has to pry them loose from his grip as though rigor mortis had set in. So traumatic has the experience been for him that she finally has to yank and drag him off to wash his bloody hands...
...freshmen, whose only other defeat was at Exeter, the contest with the Elis had looked like another easy victory. The top three players, Yank Heisler, Jack Purdy, and Chris Gurry, all won their matches at the long, sprawling Country Club in Brookline...
Died. Alfred E. Lyon, 81, longtime head of Philip Morris, Inc. as president (1945-49) and board chairman (1949-57); of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. An ebullient Britisher, Lyon arrived in the U.S. in 1912 and swiftly showed his Yank cousins what the word salesman meant, getting dealers to push Philip Morris by helping dust their shelves, paying college students to pass out free smokes to friends, sweet-talking nightclub ciggie girls into handing customers only Philip Morris when they'd ordered another brand; by 1933, he was the company's vice president for sales and there created...
...went at it another way-like a wild man on the mound scaring batters half to death. In the first inning he walked one man; in the second he walked another; in the third he hit a batter. By the fifth inning, Baltimore Manager Hank Bauer was ready to yank him for a reliever. But the Tigers were so busy ducking that no one had even got a hit. On into the ninth it went, with the Orioles leading 1-0 and nothing but goose eggs for the Tigers. By now Steve had seven walks and two hit batsmen. Three...
...Yank Heisler had the closest match at number one, Winning 3 holes up and 2 to play. Jack Purdy triumphed 5 and 4, and Chris Curry...