Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late great Walter Johnson of the lackluster Washington Senators. The "Big Train" was a self-confident competitor who occasionally went so far as to serve up fat ones to hitters suffering from nerve-racking slumps. But throwing at a batter was unthinkable. Johnson never even waited for umpires to discard scuffed balls; as soon as he saw one he tossed it aside, for fear it might force him to throw his fast one wild and injure the man at the plate...
...Yale calendar committee has decided to discard the plan by which the college opened this year on September 14, Thanksgiving vacation lasted one day, and mid-year exams will begin two days after Christmas vacation...
...some observers, the return to religion is actually a revolt against revolt. As previous generations felt it necessary to throw off old orthodoxies, so this generation is ready to discard yesterday's iconoclasm, which had become a sort of orthodoxy...
...fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand and toss a small straight, all pink into the discard. The gentleman gave up his hobby of a lifetime and directed his future interests toward philanthropy...
Empire Game. There is still much that the Japanese would like to discard ("Not because we have grown to hate Americans," explained one Japanese, "but because we have got tired of them."), but they cannot. Though they have found their way back to sovereignty, the Japanese have not found the way to stay alive without the help...