Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through a memorial service to Franklin D. Roosevelt, only half aware of the ceremony's bad taste, bored by its dreariness. "We are here to honor the honored dead," rasped New York's Mayor O'Dwyer. "Won't you please act accordingly?" But neither Bill O'Dwyer's pleas, nor prayers, nor singing, nor oratory dented the delegates' torpor. The rumble of conversation continued to fill the air, only subsiding a little when Congresswoman Mary Norton presented the credentials committee's report...
...expected to applaud a President who had plumped hard for price controls, civil rights, and a big housing program. Labor might have been expected to rally around the man who had vetoed the hated Taft-Hartley law, had thrice vetoed what he called a rich man's tax bill...
Glib Proposal. Was it Ike's fault, after that, if the pressure continued to build up? The week before the convention, such hardboiled political practitioners as Jake Arvey, Frank Hague and Bill O'Dwyer were willing to gamble that Ike actually would accept when the chips were down. Some of their confidence sprang from desperation and wishful thinking, no doubt. Some of it may have come from Ike's unfamiliarity with the language of politics...
...greatest pitcher." Satchel† Paige was born in Mobile, Ala., 39, 43 or more probably 45 years ago, son of a landscape gardener and a mother who hated baseball. He was one of a family of nine-or sixteen. This mathematical inexactitude did not trouble Cleveland's President Bill Veeck last week. For all Veeck cared, Satchel might be "two or three decades" older than the next man-as long as he could pitch. Bob Feller had told Veeck that Paige was the relief man the league-leading Indians so desperately needed...
Last week, just before signing Paige (for a reported $10,000 for the rest of the season), Bill Veeck watched him throw about 50 assorted pitches to Manager Lou Boudreau, second best hitter in the American League. Only three or four were wide of the plate, and most of them had stuff. In his two-inning relief debut against the St. Louis Browns three days later, Satchel allowed two singles, no runs, struck out one, walked nobody...