Word: dogfight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October, Lieut. George F. Gorman of the North Dakota National Guard re ported that he had had a dogfight with a flying saucer Over Fargo. He was heading for his airfield in his FSI at night when he saw a mysterious light "six to eigh inches in diameter, clear white and com pletely round with a sort of fuzz at the edges." Lieut. Gorman dived at the light the light dived at Gorman. Round & round they went for 27 minutes. Then the light put on speed and tore out of sight on a northwest-north heading...
Though beneficial to Gardella and his fellow expatriates (ex-Cardinals Lanier and Martin), a change in the contract terms would turn salary negotiations into a dogfight between players and owners which could hurt the sport immeasurably. If players went to the highest bidders, the rich owners like Tom Yawkey would soon corral all the talent. In post-war major league baseball, there is comparatively little injustice in salaries; everywhere except in St. Louis and Brooklyn, public acclaim keeps the paychecks high. The clause looks like slavery; in the minor leagues, it often is. But the experience of the past thirty...
...ghostwriter of Jim Farley's memoirs, Trohan had stirred up many a cat & dogfight among old New Dealers. But Trohan, who will get $19,000 a year, is also an able spring-legged reporter when he puts himself to it; he scooped everyone on President Truman's abortive plan to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow. Like Henning, Trohan believes in the infallibility of Colonel McCormick. Says he: "When the Colonel sneezes, the walls reverberate throughout the Tribune Tower, and even here in the bureau. But the Colonel pays for the reverberations...
...moved out of his home, to be sure of getting a good night's sleep. His new, five-weeks-old son had developed a distracting habit of hollering his head off. On Saturday, Choo Choo chugged on the field with the other blue-jerseyed Tar Heels for a dogfight with Georgia-and they found themselves trailing by 7 to 0 at halftime...
...talked to overflowing crowds at Lincoln's Union College, at Nebraska Wesleyan, at the University of Nebraska. He stopped to visit his Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers, hustled out to a veterans' settlement called Huskerville, where he broadcast above the squawling of babies and a yelping dogfight...