Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just a few blocks away, in Guatemala's green stone National' Palace, President Juan José Arévalo, once the Legion's staunch supporter, had also accepted its demise. He was still half-heartedly chasing his old dream of a democratic Central American confederation, but he had shifted to diplomatic means. The new approach involved cooing noises aimed toward Honduras and El Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio...
Detroit's Pinky Higgins, who were putting in time at Great Lakes, too. When Johnny got out of the Navy in 1946, he signed a contract with the Tigers (with a $30,000 bonus attached), socked the money away in war bonds, and reported to Williamsport, Pa. the following spring to start his formal education in the game...
...More." Red Rolfe does not expect Johnny to hit any .340 "right away in this league." There are still flaws in his batting; he swishes his bat back & forth nervously before each pitch, frequently wastes his power by swinging late. His fielding, too, still lacks polish. "All I hope is that they won't expect miracles this first year," warns a Tiger coach. "I'll bet you right now he'll make half a dozen throws to the wrong base early in the season...
...only the dramatic and profound aspiration of all Spain's poor for better laws of social justice. She had been taught by false and cunning prophets that happiness would be brought by Russia. The error is not hers-it is ours. It is ours because we are turning away from the poor and from the social teaching of the gospel ... It is our duty to see that in the Spain of tomorrow social justice is called Christian justice...
Humiliation and frustration, which followed Jeanne de Valois all her life, did not end with her death. The daughter of crafty, crusty Louis XI, King of France, Jeanne was born (1464) a sickly, misshapen creature. Her father was so displeased that he sent her away to be raised by guardians in lonely seclusion. When she was eleven, he married her off to the 14-year-old Duke of Orleans, hinting that he intended thus to end the Orleans line with his ugly, barren daughter...