Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...error in the seventh. Martin led off with a single to left and took second when third baseman Pete Haeffner made the second of his three errors on Davis' grounder. Following a double play, Mo Balboni laced a single to center, scoring Martin, and Charlie Leamy contributed a base hit to right field...
With two out and two men on base, Bill Rodgers, playing shortstop for the injured Kasarjian, got the second of his two hits, a drive deflected off the pitcher's glove to the second baseman, who fell down and shoved the ball toward first. When Leamy broke for third Balboni was forced to come home and was tagged out by catcher Tom Christopher...
Capped on a craggy knuckle of Algerian mountains penetrable only by mule trains, the village of Beni Ouagag was once the home of 3,000 Moslems. Then the Algerian war began. The F.L.N. turned Beni Ouagag into a base camp. In retaliation, the French one day in 1957 bombed the little town...
...newspaper establishments, down to the electric-lighted news streamer, flowing endlessly in the Cyrillic alphabet, along the top of Izvestia's façade. Their newsmen earn surprisingly good salaries: a junior reporter on Pravda 's local 120-man staff gets 1,500 rubles ($375) a month base pay, plus an average of $250 more in space rates. Besides this
M.I.T.'s good judgment laid the base for the public's extraordinary confidence in the entire industry. When M.I.T. was founded in 1924, it startled the financial world with a brand new idea. Until then, the investment field had been dominated by "closed-end" investment companies; they sold a specific number of their own shares that were traded in the open market, concentrated on quick profits. M.I.T. shunned the lure of the fast profit, concentrated on long-term gains. More important, it threw out the closed-end idea by continually selling shares to anyone who wanted...