Word: bunking
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...getting damned mad about this") and finally browbeat the Yankees into winning one. Don Larsen and Ryne Duren combined for a 4-0 shutout, but at that only four hits came from Yankee bats all day-three of them by the rejuvenated Bauer ("Being a good loser is the bunk"), who knocked in all four runs with his third series homer, two singles. He still managed to get picked off first once again...
Entering Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa., Plebe Simeon Rylski, 21, turned out for the 6 a.m. reveille, swept under his bunk, stood inspection, asked no special regard as Simeon II, exiled King of Bulgaria...
...probably the biggest scientific confab ever. Besides the 5,000 scientists from 67 countries, and 900 accredited correspondents, came uncounted thousands of atomic businessmen, many with wives or camp followers. Geneva has 6,500 hotel beds, but it was so jammed that some of the delegates were forced to bunk in Evian, France, 60 miles away...
...Moonglow or the 308 Club or one of the other wonderful, schizofrantic jazz joints that flourished in the Chicago of the '20s. Soon Big Bill was playing far and wide with the best of them-Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, Fats Waller. And always there was time to write his own songs: Partnership Woman, House Rent Stomp, Outskirts of Town...
...Cubs), became the Y.'s whoop-it-up religious director (1891-94), the organization was on its full-steam merry way. Today it is the largest Y. in the world (39 branches, 119,000 members), runs 13 summer camps, offers thousands of lonely strangers in Chicago a welcome bunk...