Word: batting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McGinnis and Warren sank a foul apiece early in this canto to prolong the stalemate. Moley touched the pot in an attempt to bat away a low shot by a sailor. The entire Navy bench screamed a protest and precipitated a royal argument involving everyone from Floyd Stahl to an assistant manager. Nothing came of this verbal engagement and the Receiving Station was awarded the ball for a take-out. Harvard took the ball away, and Moley dropped in a set shot on a pivot pass from oDn Geeson to give the Crimson a 41 to 39 edge. A foul...
First, and foremost, we bestow upon the staff (bless'em) our fond felicitations and trust that they will carry on in the true Harvard tradition. . .May they act with caution, dignity, and continue to administer according to the dictates of their infinite wisdom. . . . To Brother Busch, a baseball bat, a pencil eraser, a bad memory, who dozen boxes of aspirin, and the latest edition of Watch-Bill Drafting Made Easy. . . . Mr. Flanigan: Bottle of Kreml, giant size. . . . Mr. Wires: a new call sign. . . . to Hopf and Peachie (the Mighty Mite): free and unrestricted access to sick bay, provided they haven...
...what cinemaddicts saw in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Greer Garson, was something old and cherished in their hearts, but new and unexpected on the screen-the Ideal (if overidealized) Woman. Not a full-bosomed, cottontailed babe, a chromium goddess, an uncrowned martyr or a vampire bat, but a woman who simply looked and acted the way any grownup, good woman should. Miss Garson's beauty was neither parasitic nor predatory, but rich and kind. She wore the sort of ample, archaic dresses in which many cinemaddicts tenderly remembered themselves, their wives, or their mothers. She did not make love...
After six years in China, Chennault is as American as a baseball bat. With eyes narrowed and cheeks twitching, he can discuss the quickest way to kill in battle and the next moment, leaning back in his chair and puffing contentedly on his pipe, tell of his longing to return to Louisiana and shoot ducks. He talks incessantly about his family of eight children, is openly proud of the fact that five of his six boys are in service. His ever-present companion is a dachshund, Joe, a veteran of the China air lanes. He likes...
Annapolis Trained. All of the flag officers who rule the waves-with one thin exception-are Annapolis trained, † That exception is Rear Admiral Albert B. Ran dall, ex-skipper of the Leviathan. No com bat commander, he is a member of the Merchant Marine Reserve and comman dant of the U.S. Maritime Service in the War Shipping Administration...