Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Word. In Gateshead, England, Bill Hudson was charged with killing his brother-in-law during a quarrel over the spelling of the word "twelfth...
...Graaff generator; a second contestant was given a Geiger counter, asked to search the audience for a radioactive $100 bill; a third, trying to choose between two star sapphires-a natural stone ($5,000) and one made by scientists ($250)-picked the cheaper stone...
...Cartoonist Bill (Willie & Joe) Mauldin...
...same basis as the touring Met or a Marian Anderson recital, has guaranteed minimum gross receipts all along the way. The show will cost the playgoer 60? to $3.60, depending on the local sponsor; in some cases, admission will be free, with a school fund footing the bill...
When high-strung Lou Boudreau, the Indians' manager and shortstop, juggled his line-up last week and lost a game, there were public mutterings that maybe Club President Bill Veeck should have fired him last year, after all. One afternoon Boudreau sat listening to a broadcast of a Boston Red Sox game. He raked his hair with his fingers and exclaimed, "Jeez! Jeez!" every time the Sox scored. The Sox, under square-jawed Manager Joe McCarthy, seemed a shade less panicky. They had power to burn-what they prayed for was pitchers able to last nine innings. This week...