Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wally Coulson alone seemed to know the true worth of a bat. He singled hotly between first and second in the third to drive in the first run, and then dropped a clean liner into right over second base his next time up in the sixth. Charley Roche and Armie Essayen, the other locals to collect two safeties apiece, got one each on scratch hits...
...Egyptian littoral, General Omar Bradley, Army chief of staff, lectured Congressmen on the problem of maintaining a hypothetical 20-group air force within "effective" striking distance of Russia. A minimum of seven divisions would be needed to protect the base from overland attack by massed armies. The ground troops alone-to say nothing of 125,000 Air Force officers and men-would require 12,500 tons of supplies daily. Movement of this tonnage from the U.S. and protection of this one base from sea attack would involve a major naval force...
...Sarasota Terrace Hotel. Now, after practice, he goes directly to his own room, has his bottle of ale sent up, apparently enjoying and certainly inviting hostility. When asked by a Manhattan newspaperman (a man he had known for 20 years) what made him prefer Johnny Pesky at third base and Vern Stephens at shortstop, McCarthy snapped: "I just pushed a button and they came out that way." Marse Joe has been called a push-button manager by sportwriters-and dislikes it as strongly as the late John McGraw resented being called "Muggsy...
...Mars and Jupiter. But last week an asteroid was off its reservation and rapidly approaching the orbit of the earth. Astronomer C.A. Wirtanen of Lick Observatory, Calif., who spotted it, figured that it was some two miles in diameter (about the size of the Matterhorn broken off at its base) and big enough to give the earth a sizable jolt...
That's the way the game stood until the eight, when Bob Moeller singled, stole second and scored on pinch-hitter Wilson's one base knock. This run ended the scoring for the afternoon, and although the Terps threatened in each of the overtime frames, the necessary punch to drive in the winning tally was sadly lacking...