Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the states at Columbia Prep, and later at the University of Portland and Spokane's Gonzaga University, Mike played baseball (first base), gave up a chance to turn pro, went on instead to Notre Dame for his law degree. After that, he put in 3-½-years on Navy desk duty, was discharged a yeoman third class...
...power. Snapped Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak: "You suffer from delusions of grandeur inextricably entangled with an inferiority complex." Debré is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe to unite in a "defense pact" against Islam instead of the Soviet Union. A sharp pamphleteer and good debater, Debré originated the famed Ecole Nationale d'Administration to train top diplomats and civil servants. As a legal expert in France's highest...
Like a Lead Balloon. Gripped in my hand as we went through the power dive and pullout was a 4-oz. lead sinker of the kind used by bottom fishermen. Though it cost only 7? at the base PX, it made a far more vivid indicator of the zero-gravity state than the electronic accelerometer in which the Air Force has invested millions. As my bottom, squeezed to insensible bloodlessness during the 4-g pullout, rose from the seat cushion, I felt the exhilaration of restored circulation (and noted the lasting aptness of the old barnstormer's motto...
...until the culture of the Sards was finally smothered by Roman legions in the 3rd century B.C. Often fire-blackened on top. they may have served for signal fires, funeral pyres or simply strong points of repair for the fierce, feuding warrior clans. In the rubble at the base of the towers Sardinian archeologists have found a whole catalogue of a bronze age culture in the form of skillfully made miniature sculptures...
...bunts with such breakneck energy that sore-backed First-Baseman Ted Kluszewski is left lumbering in his wake. He handles the double-play with the swift hands of a professional pickpocket. "He doesn't catch that ball," says one of his fans. "He just guides it toward first base...