Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn Dodgers gave 27-year-old Negro Pitcher Dan Bankhead a brief trial last year, sent him back to a Dodger farm...
...living decorating fans and postcards, or betting U.S. tourists he could drink them under the table. His formal education was slight, "acquired through reading under my school desk. Therefore my intellect resembles a Tibetan desert, with a few pagodas here & there." During World War I, he achieved a brief respectability by joining the dragoons, because he liked the uniform. But he always kept his private pledge: never to shoot the enemy...
Experts have fished Silver Creek for as long as two weeks without a nibble, and tenderfeet have latched on to as many as eight rainbows in an hour, only to lose them, and the leaders, after a brief, vicious struggle...
Then he spent a brief, unhappy term working for Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express-a career terminated by a typically Waughlike misunderstanding. One day Editor Beverley Baxter saw Evelyn lolling in a chair in the reporters' room, and asked him his name. "Waw," was the answer that reached Baxter's ears, and, thinking that the young man was making a rude noise, the editor fired...
...Brief Revolt. Delegates were confused. Ohio had been nursing hopes for Bricker. Started by Arizona, a movement to nominate Harold Stassen rippled across the floor. Halleck rushed over to Arizona, warned: "You're sticking your necks in a buzz saw." The ripple died. Warren was nominated by acclamation...