Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said police, had printed price lists for Vancouver's United Distillers of Canada Ltd., considered the largest independently owned distillery in Canada, makers of Harwood's. These prices had been submitted to OPA in the U.S. as those in effect in December 1941 or January 1942, the base period for price ceilings. Using them as a base, OPA had set the U.S. price of Harwood's at $19.05 a case (wholesale) and $6.44 a fifth, retail. But, contended police, the lists had actually been printed in 1944. The two printers refused to talk...
...trudge bareheaded a cross the Camp . . . Oops, Yard, and tarry in the shadow of John Harvard's statue, know that Fair Harvard has emerged victorious in four gridiron jousts, and the eager young bruisers of Dick Harlow will journey to Hanover town anon, with hearts hopeful of tripping the base football varlets of Dartmouth. Albeit, 'tis needful first that Rutgers do a deal of dying and little of doing come Saturday...
...wooden penguin which continually dunks its beak into a glass of water. (The secret: a reaction between the water and chemicals inside the bird.) ¶ The Skweez-Me Boxers, a couple of gangling woodenheads who fight and flop in their little wooden ring through manipulation of the base. ¶ A dart game in which plastic bombs are dropped when trigger releases in model planes are hit. ¶ A wind-up car that turns corners, reverses, and parks itself...
...purpose of effecting peaceful unification that the National Government called the Political Consultative Council last January, composed of representatives of all political parties and groups, during which a series of agreements was reached for bringing about a truce, for broadening the base of the Chinese Government and for the integration of the armed forces, including the Communist army, into one national army. These agreements, the conclusion of which
...just one in the first two games. In the third game he finally bunted an easy roller down the third base line-and wound up, grinning and a little ashamed of himself, on first base. The bunt set off the mightiest roar heard in Fenway Park-and St. Louis modified its radical "Williams" defense. But Lone Wolf Williams might have to do a lot of talking before the Red Sox or any other team pays him the $80,000 he wants in 1917. Said Babe Ruth, the only baseballer ever to get $80,000 in one season: "A great hitter...