Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same technicality robbed the varsity's Frank Saia of a triple in the third, but it was just as well for the Crimson because Saia overran third base and was tagged out before being sent back to second...
...Adolfo bought the Alfieri Maserati firm, then financially foundering, as an addition to his scrap-iron and farm-implement businesses, later used the plant as the base of a new machine-tool business. Racing cars were only the frosting on the cake to give the tools a famous name. By last year the combination was bringing in $3,000,000 annually. But along with the cash came trouble...
Back at his Beirut travel base of operations. Author Sitwell was driven half mad by the continual playing of Scheherazade over the hotel's loudspeaker system. But he had no complaints about "the tourist service that had arranged most of his tour, appropriately named the Sinbad Travel Agents...
...Paris, smiling hopefully, flew U.S. Troubleshooter Robert Murphy and his fellow "good officer," Britain's Harold Beeley. Cause of their optimism: Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, in a sudden access of moderation, had agreed to let France keep control of the great Bizerte naval base, and to accept neutral surveillance of five Tunisian air bases that he wants France to evacuate...
...Panama Hotel, which Stone designed in 1946 (it was completed in 1951) after a three-year hitch as a captain and major in the U.S. Army Air Forces in charge of designing air-base facilities. Faced with the commission for a hotel in the tropics. Stone chose the hilltop site two miles northeast of Panama City, decided to let the rooms air-condition themselves by making each one an open breezeway with its own cantilevered balcony. When Stone told Frank Lloyd Wright he was building a hotel without corridors, without windows and without doors, the shrewd old man opined...