Word: balled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told the students of today in fluent French: "I see myself again as if it were yesterday, leaving for the Ecole . . . when I see little Americans going off to play baseball in the U.S. I cannot help thinking of the nice games of 'hunter's ball' that I played with my little playmates in the streets...
...Inonu's train pulled out, bound for Izmir, it was pelted by bricks, and two reporters aboard were injured. The provincial governor at Izmir (Smyrna) canceled a ball scheduled in Inonu's honor, and two theaters that had been hired by Republicans for mass meetings were padlocked by the building inspector as "unsafe." Just in case Inonu had not vet taken the hint, Turkey's Interior Minister, Namik Gedik, went on the air at week's end, warned that there would be "further trouble" if the old soldier persisted in his tour...
...tall young man from Tennessee's Maryville College stared at the girl across the net and served viciously. The ball came back. For the next 30 minutes his best drives kept coming back at him with maddening regularity. He began to net his returns and overdrive the baseline. At last he ran up to shake the hand of his conquerer: the University of Chattanooga's Marilyn Voges. The score...
...Princeton game, the forwards were finally getting the ball back to the three quarter line, effectively, and with exceptionally fast backs, the Crimson could compile its biggest score of the season tomorrow...
...Brown pitcher, Dave Manson, scattered five Crimson hits and permitted only one baserunner to get as far as third. He displayed a good fast-ball and curve, but his main asset was remarkably fine control. By keeping his pitches at just about knee-height, he forced most Crimson batsmen to hit on the ground; and, in addition, he walked only...