Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class parents to insure that their sons can wear the brown, red and black Winchester tie. Though this year there were ten applicants for every opening in the school, Winchester's slight, spectacled Headmaster Walter Fraser Oakeshott knows that the school will somehow have to broaden its student base to keep going in Socialist Britain...
Shortly thereafter the Braves lit a small bonfire on the dugout steps and huddled around it warming their digits. Umpire Barlick chose to ignore this. The Braves even went so far as to get two base hits off Newcombe before they relapsed to form and struck out one, two, three...
Taft does not favor direct military or economic aid to Franco, as does McCarran, but feels that Spain "is in a key military position as far as Europe is concerned." Although he voted against the Atlantic Pact and arms aid to Pact nations, he envisions Spain as a base for American troops and airborne counter-attacks. Other senators are allured by its potential market for U. S. cotten and grains...
...place of a plot, The Lonely has a situation. Flak-happy Liberator Pilot Jerry Wright takes a two-week leave from his air base in England and goes off to Scotland with Patches, a mousy, grey-eyed little WAAF. After a week of shacking up in the Loch Lomond country, Jerry finds himself desperately in love with Patches, desperately out of love with his "healthily beautiful, loving, young, vigorous, clear-eyed, innocent, sexless and inexperienced" fiancee back on Long Island.To straighten out this situation and break his engagement in a face-to-face encounter, he hops the Atlantic without papers...
...still rugged. Davison's group (This Is Jazz: 1, 3 10-inch records) is young, and it likes to fiddle around with tunes. A fine rhythm section-Baby Dodds, drums; Pops Foster, bass; Ralph Sutton, piano; and Danny Parker, guitar-make the base for all of these pieces. This segment stands out in "Eccentric" behind Davison's trumpet. Jimmy Archey, the small trombonist who made such a big noise in Boston last winter, handles the leads on "Hotter Than That" and "Big Butter And Egg Man," teaming on the latter with Sutton to manufacture a beautiful duct...