Word: berths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sole remainder from last year is Jack Clark, forward, who paced the team in 1944-45 but who will have to fight for his starting berth tomorrow. John Gantt, 6 foot, 3 inch former Bowling Green star, is battling Clark for his position. At the other forward is Wyndol Gray, another one-time Bowling Green player, who was picked last year by Madison Square Garden officials for an all-star five of Garden contestants...
They couldn't take it. They couldn't take the discipline; they didn't like the system. They didn't like to take orders from younger professional officers. . . . They were unhappy that they didn't get a nice, new warship berth, but instead drew the amphibious force, or perhaps even a drab and dangerous LST. But worst of all, none of this group of "experts" was worked hard enough...
...battleship Missouri never faltered in her course when a Kamikaze hit her off Okinawa, but when New York City school children swarmed aboard, the "Mighty Mo" shuddered from stem to stern. At her Hudson River berth last week, she was boarded by 60,000 sightseeing youngsters in a single day. Manhattan's moppets were marauders: many came armed with pliers, wrenches and screw drivers, besides their standard equipment of penknives. In a short, sharp action they...
...went home for a visit even found that his affliction had its advantages. Said he: "I had to convince the whole town that I didn't have anything bad.... I figured that if everyone was so scared at first at home, why I'd get a wide berth any time I wanted it. It sure was crowded on the train coming back and I started to get hot and boy, did I begin to itch! So I just rolled up my sleeves and showed my splotches. ... In two minutes I had four seats all to myself...
Major General Claire L. Chennault, 54-year-old 14th Air Force Commander, sent a deadpan application from China for a postwar pitching berth with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He pointed with pride to his opening one-hit, 6-to-0 shutout game in the 14th's softball season, explained: "It appears the war should be over soon, and I am looking for a place to settle down...