Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey had a trial, got licked, so ought to stay out, while Taft should know that he will never get to first base. Even Harry Truman will go around Taft...
...tried bunting down the unprotected third-base line, then reasoned correctly that Boston's Red Sox were not paying him $75,000 a season to bunt. He tried hitting to left field, and managed to poke three home runs over the left-field wall, but confessed, "It didn't feel natural." To make matters worse, Rival Joe DiMaggio was having a big season, and such talented johnny-come-latelies as Ralph Kiner and Jackie Robinson were making the headlines...
This week Marlboro College is ready to open its doors, officially on schedule, but there is still plenty of work to be done. The dirt road from Molly Stark Highway to Potash Hill needs a macadam surface. The college "laboratories"-war-surplus huts from an army air base-have not arrived...
...fortnight ago, the Paraguayan rebels seemed to have all but won the war. They had made a bold move in abandoning their base in Conception (TIME, Aug. 18), to strike down river against the capital of Asunción, 130 miles to the south. But as they smashed into the city, Dictator Higinio Morinigo's army got an unexpected shot in the arm: new arms and munitions...
...them is the widely peddled notion that Russia's dictatorship of the proletariat has lifted proletarians to new heights of human dignity. The Russian line is: We have liquidated capitalism and thereby ended the exploitation of workers. The reality is that the Soviet economy rests squarely on a base of slave labor and that the Soviet Union is the greatest slave state in history...