Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think that . . . they should hold another ball, and have the captain excluded from the list of guests...
...softball game between two inmate teams at Massachusetts' Plymouth county jail, the ball was belted over the wall. Unwilling to hold up the game, good-natured Guard Robert Woodward opened the gate so that a trusty could retrieve it, whereupon four prisoners knocked him down and escaped...
...Leather sandals for children, with a ball of bubble gum fitted into the uppers, were offered for sale in Washington...
Last week, Chairman Sewell Avery finally filled the job with an insider. He was Stuart Scoble Ball, 45, the only experienced senior officer (secretary until last month, when he also became a vice president) who had remained true to Avery and, up to now, had always got along with...
...bright young Northwestern-trained lawyer, Stu Ball went to Ward's at 28, after five years of private practice. Quick to catch on, he was named assistant secretary within three weeks, secretary in less than a year and a half. Avery, who was often in trouble with New Deal bureaus, soon found that he had plenty of use for a keen legal mind. Ball, a big (6 ft. 2½ in.) man with a smooth courtroom manner, saw Avery safely through his many scrapes with NLRB-including the one that led to the U.S. Army's wartime eviction...