Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week "because of the Lebanese situation.'' U.S. Navy helicopters flew to a meadow near the eastern Cuban mountain town of Puriales and on four successive days brought out the eleven marines and 18 sailors kidnaped three weeks ago on a bus outside the Guantánamo naval base. The play for U.S. good will was frank. Said the rebel commander in Puriales: "If the admiral wants to send you into battle in Lebanon, we don't want to hold you back...
...Kiwi-A (which is not expected to fly, hence the name), is scheduled for testing in Nevada late this year, and an elaborate test setup is being built at Jackass Flats, a safe 20 miles (and many mountains) west of the Atomic Energy Commission's main test base...
...explosion came quickly. Farrell put the tying runs on base with walks, and Rookie First Baseman Orlando Cepeda doubled them home. Two more walks filled the bases, and a moment later the crowd roared with delight as Farrell wildpitched the winning run home to give the Giants a three-game sweep of the series. "How's that for a way to win a game?" crowed Manager Bill Rigney. "We seem to find a new way every...
...creates] the sort of sensation that goes from the nape of your neck to the base of your spine when Yehudi Menuhin reaches the theme in the Bartok concerto. You know what I mean...
...long, rambling autobiography, one of World War II's authentic heroes does his best to prove that he was also a bum. Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington's saga begins in the summer of 1941, when he was a Marine officer and a flying instructor on the naval air base at Pensacola. He was, as usual, restless. "I was forever going somewhere but never getting anywhere. For the most part I was always leaving some geographical location just prior to my being asked to leave." Marine Corps Headquarters was getting tiresome about the growing difference between his debts...