Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians went to bat again the morning after-this time for Indonesia. The Ukraine's Dmitry Zakharovich Manuilsky started off mildly enough, charging on the basis of newspaper clippings that Britain was "endangering genuine national aspirations." Quipped Bevin: a newspaper has three functions: to amuse, to entertain, to mislead. The joke was ill-timed, and Vishinsky grimly pounced on it. The Briton had to listen while the totalitarian defended Britain's free press: "The fact that there is a free press in Britain entitles us to place some credence...
...Young Ryder was not surprised when beautiful Lady Julia made noises like "a thin bat's squeak of sexuality" and became engaged to a rich Canadian, who gave her a tortoise with her initials set in diamonds on its shell. He was not surprised when his good friend Sebastian took to drinking on the sly. "My dear, such a sot," said Anthony Blanche. "Sip sip, sip like a dowager, all day." But when Ryder visited Brideshead, the magnificent family mansion, he was astonished to find that "religion predominated in the house," that the family diversified its sins with daily...
...jockeys were calling for more. He set about deflating some of Tin Pan Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else affects, then gave it the business ("Chloe - where are you, you old bat you?"). They caught the nagging, namby-pamby nonsense of Glow-Worm. Their Cocktails for Two, to a 1934 sob ballad, was such a jukebox favorite that Victor made 150,000 pressings with it on both sides - so that as soon as one side wore out the other side could...
...Sister Benedict, Ingrid Bergman manages to combine beauty, great good humor and saintly dignity even while swinging a baseball bat. Taking her role seriously, Actress Bergman played it without make-up (with no damage to her good looks), visited parochial schools to see how nuns actually behave, wore ballet slippers under her robes to perfect a gliding step. Bergman fans, delighted that their idol is currently appearing in three hit pictures, will have a hard time choosing a favorite from the nun in Bells, the New Orleans cocotte in Saratoga Trunk and the lady psychiatrist in Spellbound...
...experts, as usual, disagreed. American League partisans picked the tired Tigers, but admitted that it would probably take six games for Hank Greenberg's big bat and Detroit's better balanced pitching staff to do the job. National Leaguers, viewing the 1945 World Series in the same fuzzy light, stoutly insisted that it was a six-game set-up for the younger, faster Chicago Cubs. It seemed more likely that since both clubs had barely squeaked into the series, they would have to play out the full string of seven before either one could win four...