Word: afield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coleman's regulars refused to be drawn afield. They belabored Bob LaFollette as a turncoat, renegade and opportunist. Glowing happily with exertion, they voted to back ex-Marine Captain Joseph R. McCarthy, 35, for the Senate seat. For good measure, they also turned thumbs down on brindled Governor Walter S. Goodland, 83, whose crotchety independence has irked many an old-line party man. For his place, they endorsed gladhanding, grey-haired Delbert J. Kenny, a former state Legion commander...
Sure proof of a healthy adolescent was the wandering afield of the editors in 1885 when they fathered the Harvard Monthly, devoted mostly to book reviews and articles of timeless interest...
Housing Office personnel, swamped with applications, are now roaming as far afield as Winthrop and Andover in their search for lodgings. During their first three weeks of operation, ten percent of the requests were filled. The office expects shortly to mail a letter to alumni in the Cambridge-Boston area asking for information as to possible living quarters which might ease the situation
...little-known Canadian magazine, the Hudson's Bay Company's Beaver (circ. 15,000), went far afield last week for a scoop: the first Eskimo fashion show...
Legs & Lefties. The only player who holds an edge over the little Giant as a right fielder is the mighty George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, whose big bat always obscured his prowess afield. But at bat and in the field, 173-lb. Mel gives the 215-lb. Bambino a good...