Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million). At least two Aroostook potato shippers collected Government checks for around $500,000; a dozen or so got more than $150,000 each; at least 31 over $100,000 apiece. In all Maine, 4,503 farmers averaged $15,000 apiece in Government bounty, Washington Post Newsman John W. Ball reported last week...
...Conway, Ark., Pitcher Woody Jobe served up a fast ball that broke the batter's nose, then snapped off a second pitch that broke his own arm. In Salem, N.H., the local athletic club lost its biggest game when a black snake slithered out of Shortstop Bruce Magoon's glove just as he was about to scoop up an easy grounder...
...Montgomery remembers Nov. 15, 1923 very clearly. He had just quit his steel-hustling job at a Waukegan machine plant and was having a game of 10? black ball at the Aggressor Pool Hall with his friend, Finis Moore. But Jim and Finis got to arguing and suddenly they were heaving pool balls at each other...
...minute-long nod to God-or to production in the ball-bearing works-was calculated to give the least offense to the smallest number. Even so, it barely got by. Out of 15 committee members only eight voted for it; the Soviet Union, France and two others abstained; three members had stayed away from the meeting...
...every dis-:ase abounded in Britain a couple of centuries ago. Part of the cure for consumption was to catch the tops of nine waves in a dish, then dump the contents on the head of the patient. Asthma could be dispatched by rolling spider webs into a ball and then swallowing them; epilepsy was dealt with by driving a nail into the spot where the sufferer had fallen. Nine lice eaten with a piece of bread & butter cured jaundice, and a poultice of sheep's dung cleared up erysipelas in no time...