Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trades, the baseballers sat down to talk some more, and the illusion of interleague cooperation collapsed. Everything fell apart into familiar argument when the minors got wind of a big-league deal for network television of Sunday games. Screaming that Sunday is their only payday, that their fans would desert them to watch big-league ball, minor-league leaders sent a hasty telegram to Representative Emanuel Celler. Its gist: please re-open congressional hearings on the majors' baseball monopoly...
...replace his father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, who died a fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 9). A dark-mustached carbon copy of Sir Ernest, "Young Harry" learned the diamond business long before he went to Oxford to finish his education in 1931. He captained a company of Britain's Desert Rats against Rommel's troops in World War II, returned to Johannesburg in 1944 to take up a multitude of directorships. He occupied his father's old seat in the South African Parliament for ten years, was a leader in the United Party, which opposes Prime Minister Strydom...
France, in mobilizing her efforts, her technology, her capital and her men for prospecting and developing the resources of the Sahara, does not intend to introduce in these areas what you might call a neocolonialism of the desert. On the contrary, she intends to associate the neighboring countries in this huge task of economic and social development, and to bring them to share in the hoped-for results...
...help that they get from the wind. If they stay in the air for long periods, as many of them can, they will be carried long distances even if their own speed is low. A few insects do fairly well without any wind. Dr. Hocking calculates that desert locusts can fly 217 miles at 5.6 m.p.h. Best of all are monarch butterflies, which can fly 650 miles at 6.2 m.p.h. They can stay in the air so long that a good tail wind would help them across the Atlantic without refueling...
...trimmings the kitchens will provide three kinds of pie and a pudding for desert plus miscellaneous items to spice up the meal. Each student may, theoretically at least, eat all he wants...