Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santa Ana (Calif.) Air Base, he was the nearest thing to an Irving Berlin or George M. Cohan of World War II. Loesser ground out some 200 service songs, including a slap at 4-Fs, They're Either Too Young or Too Old, a parade tune called What Do You Do in the Infantry, and one for the WACs: First Class Private Mary Brown...
Shortly before noon, jug-eared Ewell Blackwell walked onto the turf at Chicago's Wrigley Field. It was an hour and a half before game time. He looked around, then strolled nonchalantly to the third-base dugout. Someone offered him a chew of tobacco and asked if he was nervous. The most talked-about pitcher of the year waved away the tobacco and said: "Naw, I don't get nervous any more. Last year I used to be nervous as a cat before a game, and then I found it made me wild in the early innings...
...Sorry to Leave." By All-Star rules, Blackwell could pitch only three innings. The score was 0-0 when he left (the American League's veteran Hal Newhouser was matching Blackwell's fine performance). The only man to reach first base against Blackwell was Joe DiMaggio, who drove a single over second base. Ewell Blackwell left the game, said later: "I had plenty of stuff and I felt kinda sorry to leave...
Felske's 17 safe blows--in 46 at bats--were all for one base while Coulson's 15--for 41--included, besides the two circuit clouts, a double and a triple...
According to Holt the task wasn't as formidable as it looked. With only nine different letters in the base words, the wear and tear on Webster was considerably reduced...