Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanks, among which were U.S. crews getting their first lesson in actual combat, to harass, work on the flanks, blunt the Sturm without meeting it in head-on collision. General Grants operated by U.S. crews waylaid one column of Mark Ills and Mark IVs and routed them. (Said Private Barney Rossi, of Brooklyn: "If we'd had our newest tanks we'd have moidered dem bums...
...last game 15 years ago. Babe Ruth-whose magnificent coordination had chalked up 713 home runs in 22 years with the Red Sox and Yankees-retired seven years ago. Yet both managed to squeeze into their old uniforms last week. Pig raising on his Maryland farm has kept Old Barney's weight down. Rigid diet (to make his old playing weight for his part in the movie, Pride of the Yankees} has pared some of the paunch the Babe had acquired since 1935 in easy living...
...popped the third into right field, the fourth was ball two. Then the crowd let out a mighty roar as the Babe walloped the ball up, up, up into the right-field stands. Fourteen pitches later, he clouted another, trotted around the bases and called it a day. Old Barney had got only three strikes...
...receptacles to throw discs into. From Maine to California 1,500,000 members of the American Legion and the women's American Legion Auxiliary rang doorbells, telephoned, dashed about in cars and trucks. Out from attics, cellars, closets came dusty black records, bearing such nostalgic labels as Dardanella, Barney Google, Cohen on the Telephone. The greatest record hunt in history was in full...
...year-olds and this boy is not one of them." The prison chaplain, Father George O'Meara, and San Quentin Warden Clinton Duffy, the judge and the parole board chairman were all in a quandary. They agreed that San Quentin is no place for a boy like Barney. But there is no law to permit his transfer. Barney does not seem to mind. He lives fairly merrily in the prison hospital...