Word: dell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into his stringent schedule, but one day last week, as his doctor was examining him, he suddenly cried in alarm, "Dio mio, non ci vedo!-My God, I cannot see!" It was a stroke. The Pope fought back. His vision restored, he summoned his substitute Secretary of State, Angelo Dell'Acqua, and sharply demanded: "Why have the audiences been canceled?" He received Holy Communion and Extreme Unction from his German Jesuit secretary, Father Robert Leiber, but he peeked at the thermometer when his temperature was being taken and said "non é grave" when he saw it was only...
...Proving that baseball is not played by the book, Manager Casey Stengel called on Oriole Hurler Billy O'Dell to save the American League's 4-3 lead in the All-Star game. O'Dell, who has an 8-9 record and has never had a winning season since coming to the majors in 1954, got rid of nine men on 27 throws. Bubbled Casey: "He had a fast ball, a slider and a mysterious pitch up from Mexico...
...Barnaby's tennis team followed the idyllic spring pattern as it went undefeated to win the Eastern Intercollegiate League. The match of the year was the Crimson's outstanding 6-3 defeat of Yale which saw varsity Captain Dale Junta climax his Harvard career by defeating Yale's Donald Dell, one of the country's best young players in three sets. Between tennis and squash, Barnaby's teams amassed a 27 and 1 record for him this year. Again the record speaks for itself...
...outstanding match was at first singles, between Junta and Yale's sophomore ace, Don Dell. Almost completely recovered from his injury, Junta started out the contest by literally blowing Dell off the court in the first...
Taking advantage of his powerful first serve, which gave Dell a good deal of trouble all afternoon, the Crimson captain took the opening set, 6-1. Dell came back to win the second, but behind 3-1 in the deciding set, Junta found his second wind and determinedly won the next five games to take the match...