Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...base running (he perfected the "fallaway" or "hook" slide), Cobb made up for a lack of natural speed with daring, guile and meanness. His favorite tricks included kicking the ball out of a fielder's hand or permitting a throw to hit him. "I believe the base paths belong to the base runner," Cobb said-and he did not hesitate to spike infielders who tried to block his way to the bag. After he slashed Philadelphia's famed Frank ("Home Run") Baker on the arm in 1909, Cobb received 13 threatening letters from Philadelphia fans. The fans never...
Ever since Sputnik I. the Russians have been ostentatiously flexing their missiles in an artful campaign to persuade the West that in the rocket age, warplanes are not worth a ruble-or a U.S. defense dollar. "Airplanes," sneered Nikita Khrushchev, "belong in museums." But last week at Moscow's Tushino airport, as the Soviet Air Force staged its first public flypast in three years, it was clear that Soviet aviation designers have been working overtime all the while. More than 100,000 spectators, including Khrushchev, squinted into the bright sunny sky as one new plane after another whooshed into...
...wrote Graham Greene to the author, "when reviewers compare you to Evelyn." The reader turning to this novel is likely to suffer not so much irritation as a double take: the man staring from the dust jacket is the image of young Evelyn Waugh; the style and subject matter belong to Evelyn Waugh. But the author's name is Auberon, and he is 22 instead...
...which populous Order do the Knights of Miss Anne Ford belong? The cruciform decoration looks very natty...
...They want to know what they are going to be allowed to see," says one Ford executive. "The American usually only wants to know how long the tour is going to take.'' Biggest surprise to all the foreigners: the acres of cars in the parking lots all belong to the workers...