Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aircraft and snowshoe, agents pur sued two draft dodgers in Alaska, finally caught them at the base of Mt. McKinley...
...capture of Iwo Jima last March provided an ideal Dumbo base. Nowadays the rescue planes leave for their assigned areas as regularly as the bombers and fighters take off. The first boat, containing a "Gibson Girl" hand-cranked radio, was dropped May 30 to the crew of a plane shot up over Yokohama. Four crewmen drowned but seven were saved. With Okinawa also in U.S. hands a downed airman has an excellent chance of survival, even on the shores of Japan-unless Jap soldiers or fanatical civilians catch him first...
...toughest actions ended last week when U.S. and Filipino forces joined at the onetime enemy base of Banaue in northern Luzon, split the Jap remnants into three parts. Immediately the combined forces drove hard on one pocket where, natives insisted, Jap troops were still being led by Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, blatant conqueror of the Philippines...
Back to Buffalo. No such criticism had ever come from the front office during the serene reign of Manager McCarthy (ex-Boss Ed Barrow never strayed that near the base paths). Shortly, gregarious Joe McCarthy found himself suffering from "a nervous condition." After steering clear of the stadium for a few days, he offered his resignation...
...base hit: Foley, Struck out Wallace 5. Bases on balls: off 2. Wild pitches: Wallace...