Word: babe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsprint-starved Britain, whose press does an indifferent-to-bad job of covering the U.S., probably only the Guardian would have given Cooke the elbow room for his leisurely essays on everything from Tom Dewey ("a certified public accountant in pursuit of the Holy Grail") to Babe Ruth's death ("He was Hercules with bat in hand, but he was Hercules done by Disney") and the suppressed Briticisms of Anglophobe Robert R. McCormick ("Still talking with a trace of British accent, taking afternoon tea, wearing a wrist watch on each hand, and being forever to his friends known...
...Case a Babe. Since the war, the coffee break has been written into union contracts and authorized by state labor laws. No truly modern office building is designed without its grid of coffee dispensaries. Small-town and suburban housewives have adopted "morning coffee" as an excuse to go neighboring after the beds are made, the baby is changed and the breakfast dishes washed. In the Pacific Northwest, youths make their first date with a new girl an invitation for coffee. "Gives the guy a chance to case the babe, cheap," explained a young blade from Walla Walla...
JIMMY FOXX, onetime first baseman for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, who hit more homers (534) than anybody but Babe Ruth...
...Konstanty, relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, was yesterday named male athlete of the year in an Associated Press poll. He beat out Vic Janowicz by 33 votes. Completing the top ten were Ezzard Charles, Phil Rizzuto, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, George Mikan, Bobby Reynolds, Babe Parilli, and Ed Ford...
...Miami, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias over the field (in six major 1950 tournaments), to become the leading money-winning (a record $14,800) woman golfer...