Word: cal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Dressen broke the Dodgers on top with top hitting. Jackie Robinson has just dropped below .400 for the first time. Gil Hodges has hit is homers, Peewee Roose, Duke Snider, and Roy Campanella have hit hard and often. Even Cal Abrams was hitting...
...tong River Line, Sergeant Kouma's tank was surrounded by 500 screaming Koreans. While the infantry pulled back, Kouma drilled round after round of cannon and machine-gun fire into the charging Reds. The Koreans kept coming. Kouma leaped from his turret, crawled back to a .50-cal. machine gun mounted on the tank's rear deck, fired until it was empty. He hauled out his .45, emptied that, and began heaving grenades. Nine hours later, bleeding and exhausted, Kouma rode his tank back to the company line. In its wake, 250 of the enemy lay dead...
...major attempt at standardization failed. Britain went ahead with plans to replace her old .303-caL, bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifle, which dates back, to the Boer War, with a lighter, faster, .280-cal. automatic model. U.S. experts had hoped the British would adopt a -3O-cal. weapon capable of firing the same ammunition as the U.S. Garand...
...Webb; 2, Ken Keniston; 3, Cal Dickinson; 4, Jim Slocum; 5, Ted Anderson; 6, Buffy Bohien; 7, Frank Peale; stroke, Art Rouner
...Force band. But for several tense minutes each show, listeners are carried from their armchairs across 6,000 miles of the Pacific. Last week they were pressed hard against a low stone wall rimming a Korean rice field and hearing the clatter of U.S. .50-cal. machine guns as they sprayed an enemy-infested hillside...