Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been made by the chancelleries or by the deputies of the foreign ministers on the basic questions: 1) what type of regime to give Germany; 2) whether or not to internationalize the steel-producing Ruhr; 3) how to solve Yugoslavia's claims to Trieste; 4) on what to base peace treaties with Italy and the other former Axis satellites...
...lead-off hitter is to get on base; Second Baseman Stanky gets there more often than most without having to get a hit. In a game with the Pittsburgh Pirates two weeks ago, he drew three walks. Fourth time up he announced: "I'll make 'em walk me again." Then he went into his dance. While Pitcher Johnny Lanning tried to find the plate, Brooklyn's brat writhed, wiggled, squatted and crowded the plate. Umpire George Barr ordered Stanky to get back in the batter's box and behave. When the count got to three balls...
Stanky trotted smugly off to first base, after first carefully dropping the bat, as usual, squarely across home plate, as an added insult to the enemy. Pirate Catcher Al Lopez hurt his toe kicking it halfway to the pitcher's box. Stanky's fourth walk soon became Brooklyn's winning...
...months following D-Day knew the words Lichfield and Kilian as well as he knew the location of the nearest pub. Through the far-reaching military grapevine came unbelievable tales about the guardhouse at the Tenth Depot and of the colonel in command. Former pass from the Lichfield base would continually warn their buddies: "Keep your nose clean when you get there." They beat prisoners there, they told you, and some guys died from the beatings. To those who wondered why nothing had been done about it, the answer was as GI as Willie and Joe: "This is the Army...
...last week they breathed a deep sigh of relief. Under the terms of the French loan, all surplus property in French depots is to be turned over to France within the next three months. Result: a whacking percentage of the current total of 150,000 P.W.s in the Western Base will either be sent back to Germany or placed under French jurisdiction...