Word: field
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in the presidency, Harry S. Truman, onetime Field Artillery captain, had twice reviewed units of both the Navy and the Air Force. But the Army, he jokingly concluded, remained "rather timid, and remembering that I was a battery commander, has always felt a little backward about asking me to look at a review ..." Finally he picked up his telephone and told Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray that he wanted to watch the ground forces do their stuff...
...Chatillon expanded into the dress field, has now become Mexico's arbiter of fashion. He has 78 workers and turns out an average of 1,000 dresses a year. Some of his inspiration comes from Mexican sources (his materials are made by Mexican weavers), but his designs are mainly Parisian...
Grace Coolidge, who moved out of the White House in 1929, and Herbert Hoover, who moved in after her, met in another choice spot: the Yankee Stadium field boxes...
...field at West Point, Blaik's offensive unit blocked against Michigan defense until it began to look as if Army was going to play a one-game schedule in 1949. From studying movies, Blaik learned that 230-lb. Alvin Wistert, Michigan's All-America tackle, stood solid as a steel lamppost against high blocks but fell "like a shock of wheat" before low ones. On another field, Blaik's defense unit drilled against Michigan pass plays until even the bystanders got tired of watching...
...knew," said beaming Tommy Henrich, "was I had him in a hole. I was just looking at the ball, and it looked pretty good." Henrich swung and the ball sailed into the Yankee Stadium's right-field stands for a home run. In the last half of the ninth inning, ailing (back injury) First-Baseman Henrich had robbed Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' towering Negro righthander, of a four-hit shutout in his first World Series pitching assignment, and won the Series' opening game for the Yankees...