Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's East Side one day last week, a 2,000-lb. steel ball swung from a towering caterpillar crane, smashed into the base of a brick wall. Bricks and girders came thundering to earth in a billowing cloud of pink dust. The building under demolition was one of the last five remaining on the site of U.N.'s future headquarters...
...comforted themselves that their House of Lords was an anchor against the tempest of public opinion. A lord became a lord by appointment of the King, or by the happy chance of having a titled father. He owed nothing to any voter, and could afford (if he chose) to base his approach to any public matter on the dictum: "The public be damned...
...strode to the plate against the Cubs and tapped an easy grounder to the pitcher. While the pitcher was taking his time handling the ball, Ashburn was streaking for first base-and got there before the throw. The home folks beamed. Then he stole second base (the first of three he stole that game). Richie beat out another hit by sheer speed. Said one Phillies' coach: "I know I sound silly, but he's the nearest thing to Ty Cobb on the bases I've ever seen...
...surfeit of basketball players are among the Eli outfielders including Tom Redden, Gerry Breen, and Art Fitzgerald. The latter replace the injured .400 hitter Dick Tettlebach in left field, and his rash of extra base hits last Saturday made him high man at the plate as Yale beat Princeton...
Yale's captain George Bush is weakly regarded at the plate, but his glove work around first base has been extraordinary. One New Haven publication recently called him one of the finest fielding first sackers in the country, "including the major leagues...