Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could find, the powerful National Education Association (341,000 members) had once called it "probably the most serious school situation now current in the nation." The N.E.A.'s words were not enough. A school-board battle which had aroused the citizens of North College Hill (a suburb of Cincinnati) went right on. Last week the N.E.A. moved into the arena again. For the first time in its history, the N.E.A. blacklisted a school system, and urged "all worthy members of the teaching profession" to stay away from North College Hill, Ohio...
...never saw anything like it," said Superintendent Cook. "I've seen children cheer for their schools . . . but I never saw hundreds of children cry for their schools." The meeting turned into a riot. One Catholic board member was beaten, and two parents were arrested. Editorialized the Cincinnati Post: "The majority of the school board has forfeited completely the confidence of a large number of citizens...
...wound up and pitched sidearm, he was so awkward that another player remarked: "He looks like he's falling out of a tree." Last week the awkward one, up to the majors for his second year (after three seasons in the Army), shuffled out to the mound in Cincinnati to face the league-leading Boston Braves in his first night game of the season...
...league baseball's first no-hit game in nearly 14 months, and for Cincinnati fans, a night to cheer; they have insisted all along that Blackwell was the best up & coming pitcher in the majors. This season, with a second-division team behind him, he has won 11, lost 2. Said he, jubilant, when teammates gathered around after the no-hitter...
This week, against Pittsburgh's plummeting Pirates, 26-year-old Pitcher Spahn spun his tenth win, breezing through with six strikeouts. That put him one up on Cincinnati's smart Right-Hander Blackwell, two up on Cleveland's swift Feller, and halfway to every pitcher's goal-a 20-game victory total...