Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best pitched game of all time. All Haddix did was to handcuff the power-laden Milwaukee Braves without a single man reaching first base for 12 innings. But Haddix didn't win. Oh, no. Lew Burdette, hurling for the Braves, gave up 12 hits but didn't allow a run either. In the 13th, Pirate third baseman Don Hoak fumbled an easy grounder, ruining Haddix' perfect game, and Milwaukee's Joe Adcock took care of the rest with a blast over the leftfield fence...
...loves her. But Sanders also thinks highly of her, proposes marriage, offers her a name "that's regarded rather like being named Windsor in England." Will she take the baby-faced lad, or will she marry the devoted gentleman with vaults of gold? Sanders gracefully steps aside to allow her to come to her decision, but Tab leans forward again-in Central Park, Staten Island and Grand Central Station-and displays those bald eyeballs. Meekly Sophia once more obeys the scriptwriter. Tab takes possession, like a tot getting behind the wheel of a Thunderbird...
...authors have been presented to U.S. readers with the kind of endorsement that appears on the dust jacket of The Restlessness of Shanti An-dia. The testimonial was delivered in person by Ernest Hemingway, as Pio Baroja, 83, lay dying in his Madrid apartment three years ago. Said Hemingway: "Allow me to pay this small tribute to you who taught so much to those of us who wanted to be writers when we were young. I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel Prize, especially when it was given to so many who deserved it less...
...seminars or workshops are designed to allow freshmen to follow individual interests as much as possible and simultaneously to challenge them into rigorous study--in short to communicate the "excitement" of learning...
...Captain Hook. Ellis Rabb provided an unbeatably riotous Smee, an elaboration of the Starveling he did in Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford a year ago. The production employed the original music of John Crooke, which Barrie himself had termed "delightful." And special equipment was set up to allow four characters at once to fly through...