Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established stars were taking it easy, letting the rookies have the play. They wanted to be in shape by mid-April when base-hits begin to count, not in March. But last week, the Pittsburgh Pirates' big Hank Greenberg let out a notch. Result: two home runs in one game...
Jack Forte, second base; Bill Caulfield, center field; Bill Fitz, first base; Nick Rodis, right field; Walt Coulson, left field; Saul Mariaschin, shortstop; John Coppinger, third base; Bill Hamlen. catcher...
...enemy tried to repeat the Japanese coup of five years ago. From the decks of three aircraft carriers, 230 planes were flown against Oahu.* The defense was alerted and did its best in mock dogfights, but the attackers won by "destroying" the vital airfields which ring the great naval base, leaving it virtually defenseless...
...States' . . . militarism and is in grave danger of losing her sovereignty." A U.S. plane, he added, had been stunting only 60 feet over houses in The Pas, Man., and "the citizens were very angry." He demanded that all U.S. troops in Manitoba (there are 113 at the Canadian base at Fort Churchill) be forced to leave. A few days later, the Manitoba Legislature's only Labor-Progressive (Communist), William Kardash, seconded the motion...
...Dear boy, to love people as they are is impossible. And yet we must. And therefore do them good . . . holding your nose and shutting your eyes. . . . Endure evil from them . . . know how to despise them even when they are good, for most often it is in that they are base. . . . Anyone who's not quite stupid can't live without despising himself. ... To love one's neighbor and not despise him ... is impossible. -. . . 'Love for humanity' must be understood as love for that humanity which you have yourself created in your soul . . . and which, therefore...