Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stuffy's lineup will be complete except for shortstop Mort Dunn and catcher Cliff Crosby who instead will amuse themselves with exam-time occupations...
...Conscience-stricken and deeply impressed, Goethe rushed her to the church and made her his wife. When later asked by an admirer how he had fared in those critical days of invasion, Goethe instantly assumed his statuary expression: "I was like a man who from the height of a cliff surveys the raging sea. Though he cannot succor the shipwrecked, neither can he be reached by the tumultuous waters...
...cunning of the cat, the cold, the lack of food, the growing image in Curt's mind of the panther as the embodiment of sinister evil and vengefulness, change the hunter into the hunted. After three numbing days & nights, the weakened, frightened, half-crazed Curt goes over a cliff and is killed, convinced that the panther is now pursuing...
...After 40 years of looking more like the inside of an old Moulmein pagoda than a retail store, S. & G. Gump Co., the pride of Post Street, was Westernizing itself. On its temple-quiet second floor, the famed Treasure, Ivory, Porcelain and Lotus rooms, which had ranked with the Cliff House and Chinatown as S&iA Francisco tourist attractions, were ruthlessly torn out. Gump's was spending $150,000 to streamline one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient...
...shaky starts and were hampered by infield errors. A double play got Turner out of possible trouble in the first inning and Harvard went to work on Murphy in its half of the inning. A bunt single by Mort Dunn, walks to Walt Coulson, Herbie Neal, and Cliff Crosby, a single past third by Ernie Mannino plus a wild pitch and a passed ball netted the Crimson three unearned runs...