Word: yogis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Branca got rid of Tomy Henrich in the top of the ninth, but then he walked Yogi Berra. After Joe DiMaggio fouled out, Bobby Brown singled to right, and Woodling walked on a 3-2 count to lead the bases...
Silvera started the game because regular receiver Yogi Berra's previously injured left thumb swelled up as a result of Reynold's sterling pitches...
Half Citizens. The U.S. Communist Party, born in 1919, was a rachitic child dropped on the U.S. doorstep by the Russian Revolution. The U.S., historically crowded with rebels and reformers-vegetarians, Fletcherizers, yogi followers and deep-breathers; Know-Nothings, Single-Taxers, Abolitionists and seekers after Utopias; Tom Paines, John Browns, W. J. Bryans and Gene Debses-always had room for one more heresy, even a foundling of communism...
...born (1905) Arthur Koestler, one of the best political-novelists of the last decade (Darkness at Noon), is also a stubborn, highly independent thinker-a religious skeptic whose materialism is spiced with idealistic fervor, a radical in search of something to replace his lost faith in Communism. In The Yogi and the Commissar (TIME, June 4, 1945) Koestler tried to find a workable compromise between the pure, but passive life of the sage, and the earthy, but highly active existence of the political reformer. In his new book he stabs at a more ambitious project-"an inclusive theory of ethics...
...around at his four assistant coaches and observed: "A fellow's idea of a good time used to be to get out there four days a week and scrimmage, and then hit a guy in another color jersey on Saturday." Now practices are a combination of dancing class and Yogi, as each man must learn every offensive and defensive stop to perfection. Movements must be repeated over and over again, so that reposes are mechanical rather than studied. The man ho must stop and think what to do today finds himself watching the other team score from a worm...