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Word: yogi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combined '16-'4 record. Two rookies, Gil McDougald at third and Mickey Mantle in right, are learning new positions quickly and hitting steadily. The second base combination of Rizzuto and Coleman is fielding superbly and hitting around .310. Mize and Collins are sharing first base with good results. Yogi Berra is still the best catcher in the league...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 6/5/1951 | See Source »

...resignation, Kratochvil denounced his country's Red regime and called on his fellow citizens to rise against it. The Czechoslovak embassy in New Delhi promptly denounced his flight as "a betrayal of his country." Said one of the ambassador's friends in New Delhi: "Maybe the yogi in him did not get along with the commissar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Show Trial? | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...classic in the modern tragedy of the godless humanitarian.* His latest novel, The Age of Longing, makes it plain that Arthur Koestler is one of those unhappy intellectuals obviously in need of a moral and spiritual boss. When he forswore Communism, he was left spiritually homeless, stranded between the Yogi and the Commissar, and believing in neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Allegory of the '50s | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...disturbances caused by the aspects to his Sun in Sagittarius and Moon in Pisces will cause him to overreach himself ... His chart further indicates failing health starting in April" Come spring, Winston Churchill's stars 'will lead him along daring and awe-inspiring paths." The Yankees' Yogi Berra ". . . must be careful to avoid physical injury during February and August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Chosen Few | 1/8/1951 | See Source »

...Association of Women Artists decided that America's "most stimulating faces" included: Ernest Hemingway, whose face "proclaims, 'I've hair on my chest'"; Cinemactress Ava Gardner, whose face "stimulates desire" and "has the potential explosiveness of the H-bomb"; the New York Yankees' Catcher Yogi Berra, who "stimulates women's subconscious yearning for the Neanderthal man" with "the most down-to-earth face in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Notions In Motion | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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