Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connie Mack's hustling Philadelphia A's kept pecking away at the win bag, but never seemed quite able to beat the Yankees when it counted most. In Cleveland, the World Champion Indians were still trying to figure out how they happened to be trailing by six games (after a bootstrap pull-up from seventh to second place). But nothing matched the Boston Red Sox's consternation; the Yankees were calling them "cousin" after walloping them in five games...
...secret. News services spotted the trade-paper item and spread the good news to bargain-hungry U.S. consumers. Result: Goodall's retailers could no longer find anyone foolish enough to pay $27.50 for a Palm Beach, had to put the new low price into effect right away at little more than they paid for them...
Vincent Sheean, veteran foreign correspondent, sat in Vermont in the summer of 1947 and pored over Marx, Freud and Einstein with the earnestness of a junior getting up a term paper. His purpose, says Sheean, was to arrive at a formula that would explain away the appearance of God or destiny that had forced itself on his attention in human affairs. After "very bitter suffering," he arrived at this: "The concatenation of the circumstances sometimes, or even quite often, becomes snarled in a way which produces indications of pattern in the incidence of the occurrences...
...getting at the groundswell-meaning of things for himself than "Jimmy" Sheean. His 1947 "formula" did not satisfy him long. Lead, Kindly Light is the story of a new conviction that came to take its place: the conviction of an immanent and transcendent God who cannot be explained away. The man who gave him his conviction: India's late great Mahatma Gandhi...
...Test. In Los Angeles, police were looking for the stranger who snatched off Harvey Bornstein's glasses, made his victim count the number of fingers he held up, then snapped the glasses in two and walked away with the remark: "You don't need glasses...