Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extensive Jewish overrunning of the Near East would be halted by the very fixed boundaries of the new states. Although relinquishing claim to some territory, the Arabs would gain by the increased trade and industry of the entire area. And Britain would retain her essential Middle Eastern military base without interfering with sovereign peoples. Through judicious planning and large scale public works, the Jewish community could fit the large majority of European Jewry into the State within a period of several years...
...Joseph Stalin talked peace to the world, the Soviet Government talked tough to Turkey. After having pondered for a month, the Kremlin rejected the Turkish Government's rejection (TIME, Sept. 2) of Russia's demands for joint Soviet-Turk defense of the Dardanelles (implied was a Russian base on Gallipoli). Russia also...
...give . . . St. Louis any better break than you give us. . . ." That afternoon Leo ("The Lip") Durocher used eight Dodger pitchers-a league record-in an unsuccessful attempt to beat the Phillies. Next day, star Outfielder Pete Reiser broke a leg sliding into base, while 32,000 Flatbush faithfuls groaned in intense, personal pain...
...Error. Baseball-savvy Corum calls the game as he sees it, ignores official scorers and managers (he has been an official scorer himself). Last year, when the scorers charged Hank Greenberg with a twelfth-inning error in the sixth game, Corum calmly said the play was a base hit for Stan Hack. "I told 'em that I could see the play better than anyone else-our broadcasting booth was in left field-and I saw the ball bounce over Hank's head; he never got a glove on it." At 10 o'clock that night, the official...
...most recent book, "The Nuremberg Trial and Aggressive War," he took issue with those who claimed that the trial was based on ex post facto laws and was not legitimate. Professor Glueck argued that international law is to be compared to common law, which exists without written statue, and that, therefore, there is ample precedent on which to base the indictment of the German war leaders...