Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talented Shuffler. Though he was an infielder in the minors, Aaron claims to enjoy playing rightfield for the Braves because "out here I don't have as much to do, especially not as much thinking." Thinking, Aaron likes to imply, is dangerous. But by now everyone knows that Aaron is not as dumb as he looks when he shuffles around the field ("I'm pacing myself"), and some experts think he will ultimately rank among the game's great hitters. Says Manager Birdie Tebbetts of the Cincinnati Redlegs, one of the keenest judges of talent...
...losing everything." Kim puts it this way: "I was good in my first picture and got wonderful reviews. I was afraid I might not be able to live up to it. I felt it could never happen again. Today I'm worried because I didn't enjoy it on the way up, and now maybe...
...Another Age. The distinguishing qual ity of French colonialism was its lack of racial prejudice. But the war in Indo-China already belongs to another age, and in the once-prized colony, only a few French linger today. Corporal Riesen barely had time to write his book and to enjoy the fruits of his Croix de la V ail lance Vietnamienne, with palm, before he was sent off to crumbling Algeria. There, last December, his devotion to La Patrie led him to death in an Arab ambush...
...Watkins case. Americans need a new set of definitions on such matters as what is disloyalty and what is un-Americanism (the latter probably undefinable). I look for your Supreme Court to provide these badly needed definitions. The U.S. has little to fear from "creeping liberalism." Sit back, relax, enjoy it. A little freedom never hurt anyone. Perhaps, after all, agonizing reappraisals, like charity, should begin at home...
...joke in a gallows. During Ireland's Black and Tan ordeal of rebellion "troubles" in 1921, a horde of citizens, ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while a fine broth of a boy barely escapes the noose...