Word: balling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weighed only 150 Ibs. during the two years (1902-03) he played fullback for an oft-beaten Naval Academy team. But one day, when Navy was being flattened by a beefy, bulldozing squad from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the little fullback came roaring out of nowhere, slammed the V.P.I. ball carrier so hard that he rocked him over the sideline, off the field, under the bleachers. His name was William Halsey, and they called him "Bull." That was the way he went through life...
...Light Infantry Ball, Basso...
...this week, returned to New York City from San Francisco to celebrate his birthday and catch up on his awesome workload (writing four books, answering scores of letters, being chairman of the Boys Clubs of America). That afternoon he went to Yankee Stadium to toss in the first ball in a nostalgic two-inning game between Yankee oldtimers and their erstwhile opponents from the National League foes...
...accomplish these tasks, Explorer VI's 1/161n. aluminum skin shrouds the most intricate and talented collection of scientific instruments yet sent into space -all in a 29-in. by 26-in. ball that moves through its complete orbit once every twelve hours. One hoped-for result is the first relatively detailed map of the Van Allen belts, which present a formidable barrier to interplanetary flight. Previous earth satellites have not gone high enough to examine the enormous breadth of the Van Allen radiation. Pioneer IV obtained valuable information, but made only one trip through the belts before falling into...
...Lauzun who hid under the bed of Mme. de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV, and later mimicked her conversation back to her word for word. Mademoiselle did describe the bloodiest battle of the Fronde, when she saw the Duke de la Rochefoucauld staggering toward her, "having received a musket-ball through his eyes and nose, so that his eyes seemed to be falling out, and he kept blowing the blood away as though he feared one of his eyes might fall into his mouth...