Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol arm-weary policemen raised and lowered 1,072 new flags on four flagpoles so that Congressmen could mail favored constituents new flags authentically flown over Washington in the first day; the cops took about 30 seconds to clamp each flag to the halyard, haul it up and drop it down again into a red, white and blue mailing...
...most standards, the Yankees should beas far ahead as ever. Their fielding (.981) leads the league; their hitting (.261) is the best of the five top contenders. The one thing they lack is that patented Yankee authority in the clutch. Key balls dribble through the infield; key flies drop untouched. Yankee regulars have played like Little Leaguers before. But always Yankee pitching and that overwhelming Yankee bench made up for it. This year Stengel's pitchers have completed only 22 of 77 games...
...kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller. At 12,500 ft., they labored nine hours to hack 7-by-7-ft. platform from a 45° ice slope, wryly called it Concentration Camp, complete, as one climber noted, "with a handy garbage disposal - a 1,600-ft. drop." Ahead lay two deadly perils: a pair of giant, swelling domes of blue ice that left them as exposed to the fickle Alaskan weather as flies on a wall. Some 1,700 ft. of rope hammered into the ice took them across in safety. Then came Camp Paradise, the first piece...
Even more dangerous to Nixon was the 1952 affair of the "Nixon Fund," which also makes the most dramatic reading in the book. Ike was at first undecided about whether or not to drop his running mate and told reporters that anyone on his ticket would have to prove himself "clean as a hound's tooth." Hearing about the remark, Nixon "forced a disbelieving smile and muttered something to himself." Later, Ike seemed to try to postpone a decision; reports Mazo: "Nixon stiffened and said sternly, 'There comes a time in a man's life when...
...doing to God's service and her fellow youths. If she and other teenagers would put down their Elvis records and Mad comics and turn to the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible, they could better understand the Psalms and Apostles' Creed, instead of having to drop them from their service or distort them so that even an Episcopalian can't recognize his own Creed...