The News baseball team defeated the Press-Guardian outfit, 8 to 4, in a recent game, which squares accounts for the shellacking the News received a year ago.
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Shellacking
Synonyms for "shellacking" (44 found)
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Mourned Candidate La Guardia: "What a shellacking they gave me!"
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Our baseball team got off to an indifferent start at the beginning of the season, but […] "Steve" Newman gave Gonzalo another shellacking that he won't forget for some time.
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Unity and democracy are still taking a shellacking here on the home front, despite our successes in the Marshall Islands and in Italy.
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