Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time that America is considering toning down the embargo on goods to Red China, it plans to send an atomic missile unit to Formosa. If any lessening of tension might derive from the trade action, it will be negated, if not overridden, by the nuclear weapons base...
...Nationalist government's drive to broaden its base among the Taiwanese is also paying off in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 650,000-man military establishment-the only force in the free world engaged in a continuous, if sporadic, shooting war with Red China. Under Harvard-educated Defense Minister Yu Ta-wei, a mainlander, a U.S.-styled recruitment and training program has been set up which in less than a year has brought in enough young native Taiwanese soldiers to lower the average age in Chiang's army from...
Hoak's Hoakum. Cincinnati's Don Hoak was first to set the rule writers working. Leading off second in a game with the Milwaukee Braves, Base Runner Hoak started for third when Cincinnati's Wally Post laced a grounder to short. Redleg Gus Bell, who had been holding first, took off for second. With his sharp infielder's eye, Hoak recognized the setup for an almost certain double play. With his sure infielder's hands he fielded the ball, tossed it to the Braves' astonished shortstop, Johnny Logan. "Hit" by a batted ball, Hoak...
...blatant assault on the rules was too much. From now on, said National League President Warren Giles, if an umpire thinks that a runner has deliberately interfered with a batted ball in order to break up a double play, both the runner and the man behind him on the base paths will be called...
Stan Golblatt will catch for the freshmen, with Chuck Leamy at first base, Hale Sturges at second, Jim Crampton at shortstop, and Dave Kipp at third. Harvey Mazer, Bruce Gilley, and Dave Hurwitt will be in the outfield...