Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field all right. After he had let his two engined B-25 bomber down under a 900-ft. ceiling he radioed for permission to go on to Newark. LaGuardia approved, warned him of low visibility (about two miles), concluded, "We're unable to see the top of the Em pire State Building...
...little old house on East 20th Street looked the same-littered and neglected, with the shingles peeling off. A single dried apricot hung on the tree in the front yard. "Better than last year," Horn's father said. "Last year all of 'em dropped...
...Come & Get Me." Headlong Admiral Halsey had another ambition. When the fleet got back to respectable strength and the Jap radio still tauntingly asked "Where is Halsey?" he had exclaimed: "I'd like to send a signal giving my latitude & longitude, and dare 'em to come and get me. But Nimitz won't let me." Last week, Fleet Admiral Nimitz still omitted to mention the latitude & longitude, and named only a small part of the strength of Task Force 38. But it was a fair and fearful sample...
...five tune-up fights since getting out of the service. ... I scored five knockouts. So what happens? Some guy refers to 'em as Larry Laydowns. What did you fellows want me to do ... fight Joe Louis the minute I took off my uniform...
...even got along with umpires-until arguing with umpires became part of his managerial business. Umpire Bill Klem once called a doubtful third strike on him, and added: "You can't hit 'em without swinging at 'em, you Mississippi runt." Ott replied: "That kind of hurts me. . . . Everyone ought to know I come from Louisiana." In his 20 years with the Giants (one more than any other National Leaguer has spent with one club), his easy manner and boyish smile have been almost as effective...