Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seasons, he pitched for the Cardinal farm team at Williamson, W.Va., winning 15 games and losing 8. At Daytona Beach, Fla. the following year, he won 18 games and hit so well (.352) that he was used as an outfielder when he wasn't pitching. In a chase after a fly ball at Daytona, his career was set for him: he took a header and landed on his left shoulder. His throwing arm never felt the same after that. So Pitcher Musial, as Pitcher Babe Ruth did 22 years before him, became a full-time slugging outfielder...
...kinds of worries" were in the minds of the refugees, reported the Communist Liberation Daily. "Some even thought the government was trying to chase them away, with the result that they didn't dare accept the flour given to them as relief after the [recent] typhoon, for fear of being obliged to leave Shanghai." To soothe them, a Red directive called for propaganda and education, promised a magnanimous attitude toward refugee landowners if they would "repent of their mistakes and engage in production...
...That, he said, was his rightful share of what they had received for an ancestral castle, objets d'art and the family silverware in Austria. Although Anton and Ileana were safely in Buenos Aires, he won an attachment against $100,000 that they had salted away in the Chase National Bank...
...ninth president will be ex-Maine Governor Horace A. Hildreth (Bowdoin '25), whose four years in office were distinguished for Yankee thrift in government and for a colorful State Council meeting held on a hunting trip in the Maine woods. Hildreth, who had abandoned politics when Margaret Chase Smith edged him out of the 1948 senatorial race, was pleased as punch with his new job, endowment drive & all. Said he: "Private institutions of learning today must be made self-supporting and operated within their budgets or face the necessity of appealing...for [government] funds...
...nothing the Speaker could do or say was going to save Harry Truman from another defeat. The rebellious House was out to kill the Administration's spectacular Brannan farm plan (TIME, April 18). And to make the chase more annoying, some of Sam Rayburn's most stalwart followers were leading the posse...