Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Braves' Warren Spahn, 42, baseball's dean of pitchers, against the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, 42, who had just added Babe Ruth's extra-base hit record to the 54 other marks he holds or shares. Spahn wound up and threw. Crack! Thunk! Oof! A screaming line drive hit Spahn squarely in the belly. He staggered and fell. Somehow he picked up the ball and threw Musial out. He then paused briefly to catch his breath-and went on to beat Musial and the Cardinals, 4-3, driving in the winning run himself with...
...state." Taking the floor in his defense, Dia argued that he was not guilty. When he sent gendarmes to overthrow President Leopold Senghor and arrest pro-Senghor Deputies, Dia said, he was only trying to head off a plot against himself that stemmed from his efforts to crack Senegal's peanut monopolists. Cried Dia: "I wanted a constitutional solution, they [Senghor's men] wanted a political one." In reply, the prosecutor sounded downright sympathetic. There were extenuating circumstances, he agreed; Dia was obviously a misguided patriot who "thought that one could not be a good Senegalese when...
...conceded that the Administration had been too con servative about the year, said that the Government might well "revise upward" its own official prediction of a $578 billion G.N.P. for 1963. His hint: about $583 billion. Color Broadcast. In Detroit, auto producers predicted that car sales this month will crack last October's alltime record of 728.552. A few even dared to forecast that 1963 sales will top 1955's historic high of 7,200,000. Last month U.S. consumers bought well over 700,000 cars-more than Detroit managed to produce-and sales have been running...
...Masters reaffirmed a long-standing but loosely enforced rule prohibiting the wearing of shorts in House dining halls at their monthly meeting Wednesday. It appeared that a crack-down on violations loomed, as students in shorts were barred from meals in at least one House yesterday. Other students in shorts met no opposition, however...
Tocsin proved a slightly harder nut to crack as the end of regulation time found the score knotted at two-all. The CRIMSON slapped the peace-loving Tocsin nine with a 21-run eleventh inning, and Tocsin turned the other cheek and also bowed to the inevitable...