Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...timid, Veterans Administration employee of Winston-Salem, N.C., arrived in Manhattan with his wife. They were whisked from the train into a dizzy whirlwind of broadcasts, playgoing, wining & dining. Soon, the Turners and their four sons would embark on a South American cruise. By selling the television sets and diamond rings that had been dumped in their laps, they would pay off a lot of old bills...
...that is under Heaven"-despite the fact that their neighbor, the "Caesar" of Moscow, had assumed much the same title and traced his primacy back to both pagan Greece and the prophets of Israel. Londoners, cheering a march-past of Dominion troops at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, could not only assert a similar claim but even believe that at last a point in history had come when the sun would stay obligingly at full noon...
...team, permitted the Varsity baseball team to score seven times in the eighth inning to win its first game in four starts by the score of 8 to 5. Until the eighth Bill Confrey, the small-sized Middlebury hurler, held the Crimson to three bits on the Soldiers Field diamond Saturday...
...Jayvee baseball team made its fourth straight victory a convincing one, as it unloaded 13 hits and 17 runs on a hapless Nichols Junior nine yesterday afternoon on the Dudley diamond. The score...
Hapless Dudley took another dive on the diamond, and Leverett was so much the gain for it. A pair of commuters was all Dudley could scrape up in the way of ballplayers, but they weren't enough to make the game interesting. Leverett won by forfeit...