Word: boneyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howard Ehmke, 64, major-league right-handed pitcher who started out with the Detroit Tigers, moved on to the Boston Red Sox (no hitter v. Philadelphia in 1923), and reached his high moment, playing for Philadelphia at the end of his career, when Connie Mack summoned him from the boneyard to be a surprise starter in the first game of the 1929 World Series and he struck out 13 Chicago Cubs (including Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson) to set a series record that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century-until Brooklyn's Carl Erskine mowed down 14 Yankees...
...they saw the field thin rapidly as they nursed their car along. Last year's winning Jaguars, their engines cut down to meet the new 3-liter limit, began to fail after 15 minutes. Moss rattled to a stop within three hours. The course became an automobile boneyard...
...boycott continued, bringing the bus company to its economic knees. King and 89 other boycott leaders were indicted on charges of violating a 1921 antiboycott law that came straight from Alabama's legal boneyard (King's $500 fine is still under appeal). Then Montgomery's officials made a stab that very nearly paid off. They went to court for an injunction against the M.I.A. on the ground that it had set up an illegal transit system...
...shirt, stubbornly resisted the town's professional charm. He snorted at the "funnies in satin Cadillacs" and told them precisely, in Miltonic periods of incomprehensible jive talk, what to do with their "putrid glamour." He wanted to be left strictly alone, he snarled, and as for that "cultural boneyard" called Hollywood: "The only reason I'm here is because I don't yet have the moral strength to turn down the money...