Word: 50s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy, a balding wise man in his 50s, had brought hustle and hope to the Braves (they hadn't won a pennant in 34 years). Pepperpot Eddie Stanky, a refugee from Durocher's Brooklyn, added spark to the infield before breaking an ankle fortnight ago, which will keep him out of the lineup for 60 days. Outfielder Tommy Holmes put zing into the batting order. Southworth didn't seem to be worried about Durocher's new Giants, or Shotton's new Dodgers-only about his old alma mater, the St. Louis Cardinals, "who stand...
...committee. At week's end, they voted 16-to-1 for the 70-group force, sent a bill to the Senate floor carrying $822 million to buy, as a starter, 825 new jet fighters (P-84s, improved P-80s), 28 heavy bombers (B-36s and B-50s) and jet bombers...
Polite Pierre Etchebaster, a wiry little Basque, has one thing in common with Henry VIII and Napoleon Bonaparte: he plays court tennis. Pierre, who is in his 50s, is the Babe Ruth of the game...
...Tovarish Anny," as her Rumanian comrades call her, has a ladylike reticence about telling exactly how many years ago she was born as Ana Rabinsohn. Estimates vary anywhere from 51 to 58 years (the Rumanian Legation in the U.S. cautiously states that she is "in her early 50s"). More certain is the number of years she has spent in exile or "underground" (15) or in jail (6). For Ana, after a fling at teaching school and studying medicine, turned to the precarious business of Balkan politics...
Fragrance Without Substance. But while lighting up obscure corners of the past and its unremembered versifiers and belle-lettrists, Brooks seems unable to evoke the accumulating tension of U.S. life during the '50s and '60s. The Civil War itself plays no role in his book except insofar as it impinges on Whitman's personal development. In his eagerness to recreate the fragrance and colors of the past, Brooks impatiently skips those struggles of the mind and body that comprised its substance. There is more in this book about Miss Woolson's literary mannerisms than Lincoln...