Word: bats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...airplane still cannot perch on a wire like a bird, but it can hang beneath a wire like a right-side-up bat. The Army now has a "portable airport" which enables a light observation plane to land and take off from a cable...
...Hank Greenberg rubbed a lucky piece of bone on his bat, strode thoughtfully to the plate, and slammed a grand-slam homer into the left field bleachers. That did it: Hank's 13th home run (in 78 games since his Army discharge) finally clinched the American League pennant for the Detroit Tigers, on the last day of the season. The 6-to-3 win over the St. Louis Browns was No. 25 for Lefty Hal Newhouser, who had relieved fast-bailer Virgil ("Fire") Trucks, fresh out of Navy blues...
...Mutual microphone stepped Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, to help auction off four pairs of Nylons, a Persian lamb coat, a bat autographed by Babe Ruth. They were some of the sideline booty (besides $105.000) which a sympathetic U.S. public has showered on Pfc. James Wilson, who lost both hands & feet in a plane crash. Private Wilson wanted to sell off his presents to give the proceeds to a hospital pal - a triple amputee...
...clerk with what he calls an "author complex." In Whitehorse he was not particularly popular. ("I have never been popular. To be popular is to win the applause of people whose esteem is often not worth the winning.") His one social accomplishment was his recitation of Casey at the Bat, Gunga Din, The Face on the Barroom Floor...
...there was special treatment. At Ofuna, a camp for unregistered prisoners, they endured months of solitary confinement and tortures. Husky guards took pride in breaking jaws and eardrums. At a Japanese prison camp, Marine Lieut. William Harris, veteran of Corregidor was battered for half an hour with a baseball bat. He lived, but others, after similar treatment, died. There were also more refined methods: metal bits were fastened into soldiers' mouths with thread which gradually drew tighter & tighter;match slivers were thrust under men's fingernails, and jagged ends of bamboo twisted against their faces...