Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naked desolation, the city administration issued free seedlings of wildflowers. The Reconstruction Deliberation Committee, with Rotarian zeal, dreamed of making a tourist center of Hiroshima with parks, broad avenues and a memorial hall to world amity. Chief booster was the city's assistant mayor, who played third base on the newly formed baseball team. (Brightly colored posters tacked to dead trees last week announced a doubleheader with the Osaka-Kobe team...
Sparked by a three run rally in the fourth, the Crimson nine easily beat the Squantum Naval Air Base squad 7 to 5 on the sailor's home grounds yesterday in an abbreviated seven inning contest...
Offensive highlight of the game was Fiorentino's base running. He got on base on a fielder's choice in the third. He broke for second, and the blue-jacket catcher's throw was wide of the bag and rolled into center field. He continued on to third, and as the center fielder held the ball he kept going and scored with a headlong slide into home on a close play. He scored again in the seventh on the same play except this time the second baseman missed the peg, letting it trickle through his legs into short center. Johnny...
Runs batted in--Moravec, Essayan, Peterson. Stolen bases--Fiorentino 3, Senseny. Doubles--Fiorentino, Peterson. Strike out--Moravec 4, Croft 3. Base on balls--Moravec 4, Croft 1. Hits-- off Moravec 4 in 5 innings; off Croft 2 to 2 innings. Wild pitches--Moravec...
Roman Catholicism, Morrison says, does not merely threaten Protestantism-it is a threat to America itself: [It] is a self-enclosed system of power, resting upon the broad base of the submission of its people, whose submission it is able to exploit for the gaining of yet more power in the political and cultural life of the secular community. . . . Its triumph in America would radically transform our culture and change the character of our democratic institutions...