Word: dom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip will give him his first good line on battery strength, and his pitchers and catchers are the big questions on this year's team. Of his hurlers, only Dom Repetto has had much past experience, and the other moundsmen wil have to come through if the team's veteran strength elsewhere is to bring a successful season. A replacement must also be found for last year's catcher, Bing Crosby...
Malta: Negotiations are under way with Maltese Premier Dom Mintoff, who surprisingly wants to get closer to Britain, hopes to see Malta integrated as closely as Northern Ireland into the United Kingdom itself. A little flattered, a little uncertain, the British want to be doubly sure that most Maltese feel the same way as their young Premier...
...With Clark Gable in Command Decision, the station scored a whopping Trendex rating of 28.4 on Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even on a Monday enough viewers stayed up past midnight to give an impressive 21.1 to Ronald Colman and Greer Garson in Ran dom Harvest. In Chicago WBKB leaped from fourth to first place by launching 740 RKO movies with a showing of Rosalind Russell in The Velvet Touch, and two other stations rushed in fresh Hollywood features of their own. Philadelphia's WFIL led its field late at night by dipping into...
...manner novel for a cemetery," one historian observes, "it became a favorite carriage drive for Boston families, and a show-place to which were taken famous visitors, like Dickens, Emporer Dom Pedro of Brazil, and the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), who planted a purple beech tree...
...Washington, Adenauer's speech caused scarcely a ripple. As U.S. official dom saw it, the Chancellor had simply restated some harmless truisms about U.S.-European relations. Some European diplomats, however, were bewildered by the speech, felt that Adenauer was altering his own stout stand against a foreign policy of neutralism, a policy he had so long disdained with the comment: "One cannot sit between two chairs...