Word: balled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Saturday during the winter months . . . The game features the best attributes of soccer, rugby and gridiron football, and it eliminates the disadvantages of the latter in that it is only on rare occasions that anyone is hurt. Long kicks, high marks (catches) and accurate, speedy passing of the ball are the fundamental attributes. The game is continuous, and there are very few interruptions in the play...
...Jackie Robinson hit that ball...
Last week Bermúdez' hole card looked more like a trey than an ace. Mexico's oil is not "vital" to U.S. defense, a consultant told the State Department. The consultant was Max W. Ball, a one-time director of the Oil and Gas Division in the Interior Department. Ball reported that Canada, where U.S.-controlled oil companies have already made rich discoveries, "offers more alluring prospects, geologically and politically, than Mexico...
...alluring? Ball estimated unproved reserves of the new Canadian fields at a whopping 20 billion barrels, contrasted to 5-15 billion barrels in Mexico. Furthermore, Ball saw the $200 million loan sought by Mexico as just a starter. Since Mexico had drilled an average of 35 wells annually in the last ten years, and "it might take 10,000 or more" to develop the fields fully, the eventual cost might run from $2 to $4 billion. The U.S. "cannot afford" to lend that much money, especially since chances are slim that Mexico's monopoly could...
Consultant Ball said that if Mexico would open the door to U.S. companies on the same terms offered by other nations, a loan would be advisable...