Word: writhed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Writh 16 of their 25 players new to the club this year, the Tigers no longer seem afflicted with tired blood. Rookies and rejects have blended smoothly together. "When you have a young team, as we do," says hard-hitting (.306) Outfielder Al Kaline, a nine-year veteran at 26, "everybody tries harder, because the new young players are trying hard to make it." Though the Tigers lack the down-the-line power of the Yankees, the big bats of First Baseman Norman Cash (with a .365 average to lead the league, 32 home runs) and Leftfielder Rocky Colavito...
...Rowlands, a hymn-singing Welshman from a valley full of coal tips and chapels, it is booby-trapped with social snares and moral menace. At 24, he gets an appointment as assistant lecturer in mathematics at one of the new raw "red brick" universities in the English provinces. Starting writh this subject matter, Menna Gallie's brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves to trace a few more lines on the meticulously mapped social topography of postwar Britain. New to this socially useful labor, Novelist Gallie adds a wonderful Welsh fluency, quite as awesome as the more widely notorious...