Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other People's Houses. Millions of citizens could not get out of town but they went motoring anyhow. In Kansas City, thousands spent their evenings driving slowly through the suburbs, critically eyeing other people's new houses. Great crowds drove to the race tracks and the ball parks. Zoos, parks, botanical gardens, got their full share of the army of spring-struck automobile owners. By night youth took to the highway; couples parked in Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, in the foothills above Albuquerque, and along a thousand Old Ox Roads...
Every comely stenographer on the Navy's Quonset Point Air Station near Providence had been acting a little skittish lately. The reason was the big, annual all-station ball for the base's 3,900 sailors and civilian personnel. This year, the big feature was the election of "Miss Quonset Point." The triumphant queen was to be crowned at the ball; the commandant would escort her in the grand march. Everyone who bought a ticket got a vote, and sales were brisk...
...contest, he declared, had "degenerated into a farce." The committee meekly called it off. Explained a disgruntled committeeman: "The good captain didn't want to be seen walking down the aisle with a sweep woman on his arm." Mrs. Clauson sadly announced that she would not attend the ball at all. Promptly, some 800 other workers turned in their tickets. Said one: "If this contest is for the lieutenants' girl friends, then let the lieutenants go to the ball...
...grew bigger as the game went on. Harvard touched Wolcott's fancy curve ball for just three hits--two of them by Herbie Neal--and only four base-runners reached second. Three infield outs and a strikeout quelled these "threats...
Wolcott is probably the best pitcher Harvard has faced this season. Besides his tricky curve ball, he showed fine control and more than adequate speed. He even picked a man off first...