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Detroit's two great pitchers, Dizzy Trout (won 23, lost 10) and Left-hander Hal Newhouser (22-8), had a good chance of exceeding Dizzy & Paul Dean's 1934 total of 49 wins. To aid and abet this outstanding pitching, the Tigers had Sluggers Rudy York (16 home runs) and Navy-released Dick Wakefield. Pitcher Trout himself was the sluggingest pitcher in the League, with five home runs to his credit. But if hitting would do it, the Red Sox were in. The club led the League in batting, boasted the three top individual averages...
...after him like a pack of soprano hounds. Regina (Marsha Hunt), the stage-struck eldest, wants the reporter's hand because she thinks that he can put her name in lights. The middle five, slaves of an old Dutch custom giving first chance to the eldest, aid & abet the match for all their high Cs are worth although Billie (Kathryn Grayson), the youngest, loves him just for himself, but cannot bear to offend tradition by making off with...
Animals don't get loose without some malicious spirit to aid and abet them, and boojums are the most malevolent of all spirits as anyone who has hunted for snarks can tell you. We know that the boojums feel slighted by your article, and wish you would apologize to them...
...steps and through the revolving doors of the Hotel du Pare. Not a sound came from the crowd. They were not there to pay tribute. They were there out of morbid curiosity. They, like millions of other Frenchmen, could guess what final cruelties and betrayals Laval would abet - if Adolf Hitler willed it. They knew Laval would stop at nothing to assure a German victory. Laval had said (in a letter quoted by the journalist Pertinax, who estimated that 90% of the French people are pro-British): "I fully realize that the hangman will quickly take care...
...Priests should abet "good, clean" labor unions in organizing, cooperate in every way with them. They should also help employers to organize...