Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's regular infield, and he'll be trying to pull down the hot corner again. In the running for the same position along with him is John Chase, late of the hockey sextet. Samborski won't quite be starting from scratch in finding a man to cover first base. Big Walt Coulson, who roamed the outfield for the varsity last year, covered the first sack in his prop school days and should be covering the same spot for the Crimson...
Aboard the Williamsburg, almost everybody in the President's party was seeing green without looking at the sea. But Harry Truman" did pretty well. When he went ashore a few hours later at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, in Cuba, he alone looked fit. Said the President: "I stood up all right for the simple reason that I didn't get up. I stayed...
...Guantanamo, the President rode around the base in an open car, stopped to greet some 200 children who welcomed him by singing America. One, a freckle-faced twelve-year-old boy, stepped forward to present a scrapbook about the base's school. After a brave start, the boy flubbed his long-rehearsed speech. Harry Truman, who knows how it feels to stumble over lines, leaned down and whispered: "Never mind, son." The boy beamed...
Color Change. A few hours later, the President's airplane put him down at Key West and into seclusion in a white bungalow at the U.S. submarine base. He thumbed through newspapers, which headlined his troubles in the South. Even while he was away he had enraged the South's white-supremacy bloc by visiting the Virgin Islands' Governor William Hastie, a Negro (who wore a button proclaiming: "Forward with Truman...
...snowbunny is a discouraged slatser, an aborted expert, a perennial beginner. The bunnies never remain on the slopes long enough to make any headway; but are driven indoors by ten o'clock, where they are content to watch the schusser from plush leather chairs in the base camp. Bunnies are the last to leave the ski lodge and the first to return, just in time for a change and five o'clock cocktails...