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The Unforgettable Season choose

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[US] N.Y. Eve. Journal 11 Dec. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 6: He is the whole Swiss cheese at this meeting [...] the whole show.
at whole cheese, n.
[US] Sporting News 19 Dec. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 9: Bridwell [...] will look like an amateur in the absence of the heady Dahlen.
at heady, adj.2
[US] N.-Y. American 18 Dec. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 9: He is kingpin of the staff.
at kingpin, n.
[US] N.-Y. American 25 Dec. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 11: Every quack in the country hounding the life out of you.
at quack, n.1
[US] N.Y. Eve. Journal 11 Dec. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 6: He is the whole Swiss cheese at this meeting [...] the whole show.
at show, n.
[US] N.-Y. American 11 Aug. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 163: People who spend Sunday batting around Coney Island [...] do not generally posess any pepper on washday.
at bat, v.
[US] N.-Y. American 26 Apr. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 54: Four bits (a slang expression signifying half a bean).
at half-a-bean (n.) under bean, n.1
[US] N.Y. Globe 22 Aug. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 179: The man who beats the cash register when the Giants’ secretary is counting up the house will have to go some.
at beat, v.
[US] N.Y. Eve. Journal 21 Aug. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 178: After the game Ganzel acknowledged the decision was right, but he made an awful belch at the time.
at belch, n.
[US] N.Y. Times 24 Apr. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 51: A hot cigarette dropped into it [i.e. a large hat] would have called for four alarms and the Chief’s gasoline go-cart.
at benzine buggy, n.
[US] Chicago Trib. 19 July in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 129: Bingorino! Away went the ball.
at bingo!, excl.
[US] N.Y. Eve. Journal 18 Sept. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 227: John T. Brush handed Brother Bingham a line of conversation regarding the necessity of policing the grounds [...] and he will send a couple of hundred blue-boys to hang around and make themselves useful.
at blue boy, n.2
[US] N.Y. Herald 25 Sept. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 252: About 100 bluecoats swung their sticks about the side lines.
at bluecoat, n.
[US] N.Y. World 23 Sept. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 239: Bridwell tried to field a grounder [...] booted the ball, and Overall scored..
at boot, v.1
[US] N.Y. Eve. Journal 31 Jan. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 14: Pulliam’s new fighting ‘ump’ [...] was the boss banisher of the year.
at boss, adj.
[US] N.Y. Eve. Journal 25 Sept. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 253: Local ‘bugs’ and ‘bugesses’ can keep their lingerie on.
at bug, n.4
[US] Cincinnati Post 14 May in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 67: The men whom he taught to bulldoze umpires and behave like Bowery roughs.
at bulldose, v.
[US] Sporting News 17 June in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 98: The Giants have been getting their bumps right along.
at bumps, n.1
[US] Phila. Inquirer 15 Apr. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 40: Mathewson had bunked those Phillies.
at bunk, v.3
[US] N.Y. World 12 July in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 122: The way he buries that double-deck delicacy [i.e. strawberry shortcake] is a caution.
at bury, v.
[US] N.Y. Globe 20 Mar. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 30: The Giants [...] quit the bush league circuit after one day’s experience.
at bush league, adj.
[US] N.Y. Eve. Journal 25 Apr. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 52: He turned tail and tin-canned so fast for the outer bulwark.
at tin-can, v.
[US] N.-Y. American 2 Oct. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 279: Young Herzog, who was the candy child today, clouted [...] one good, sincere clout.
at candy, adj.3
[US] N.Y. Press 25 July in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 137: Wagner raced in [...] scooping it up with his bare hand an inch from the carpet.
at carpet, n.1
[US] N.Y. Times 11 June in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 92: Cy Seymour, our charley-horsed center fielder.
at charley horse, n.
[US] N.Y. Eve. Journal 27 Feb. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 23: The pushball was of infinite interest to the spectators, especially the ‘chocolate babies’ delegation, the darkies rolling over and over [...] in paroxysms of laughter.
at chocolate baby (n.) under chocolate, adj.
[US] N.-Y. American 9 Aug. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 161: Everything was lovely while the Windy City lads were showing a stern chase.
at Windy City, n.
[US] N.Y. Globe 26 Mar. in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 33: It is seldom that a minor league recruit in his first year [...] shows enough class to win a regular position.
at class, n.
[US] N.Y. World 12 July in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 122: Croton cocktails and cow juice is my limit.
at Croton (cocktail), n.
[US] N.Y. World 12 July in Fleming Unforgettable Season (1981) 122: ‘Croton cocktails and cow juice is my limit.’.
at cow juice (n.) under cow, n.1
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