Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expanse-and a considerable lack of talent-Washington's late owner, Clark ("The Old Fox") Griffith, relied on bunts, slap-singles and speed on the base paths. Legend has it that Griffith watered the infield to slow bunts to an unplayable dawdle, even slanted first base downhill to benefit his sprinters. One vestige of Griffith's parsimonious reign: the four sluggers earn some $66,000 (Killebrew gets around $8,000) all told v. $80,000 for the Yankees' Mickey Mantle alone...
Peter De Vries had a lunch date in Manhattan recently with visiting British Novelist Kingsley Amis. De Vries spared no effort to round up a third for lunch, his New Yorker colleague, E. B. ("Andy"') White. The anticipated lunatic-fringe benefit: De Vries would breeze home to Westport, Conn, and tell his wife: "I had lunch today with Amis and Andy...
...carried their running debate on to a reception that Kozlov held for Nixon at the Soviet embassy. Kozlov suggested that the supermarket and shopping area he had visited was strictly a showcase for his benefit. Not so, said Nixon. Besides, he added, did not the Russians bring their prettiest girls to model at the New York exhibit? Kozlov admitted that Nixon had a point. Speaking of markets, the Vice President mentioned that he himself was the son of a California grocer and was reared in a modest economic background. In turn, Kozlov confided a rare item of autobiography...
...back against the peeling green walls of the gym, were arrayed more than a thousand sweltering Louisianians-many of them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely 10:40 a.m. there was a rustle at the rear of the gym and a voice rasped: "Push 'em back! Push 'em back!" Behind a wedge of deputies, to the roar of yells, applause and cheers, Louisiana's embattled...
...generation, and almost singlehanded gave a new, dramatic shape to oratorio style. A shrewd businessman, he combed Italy for singers, scored such a success with famed Soprano Francesca Cuzzoni -described by one listener as having "a nest of nightingales in her belly"-that she sold out a benefit performance of his Ottone at a top of ?50 a seat...