Word: field
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Lausche out, the field was open but the crop was poor. The C.I.O. wanted Murray Danforth Lincoln, a lanky, transplanted Yankee, executive secretary of Ohio's Farm Bureau Federation. The trouble with Lincoln, who had voted from the beginning for Franklin Roosevelt, was that he was a registered Republican...
...Democrat was already in the field...
...appearance had not altered since the first time I met him five years back, at a time when he was also fighting for his life. His surroundings were, however, vastly different. Heavy, highly polished furniture which looked both cosy and somewhat bourgeois had replaced the rough tables, chairs and field telephone which furnished his cave headquarters...
...silenced Cardinal bats (6-0) with the help of outfielders who chased fly balls like men on bicycles and made "impossible" catches. One smash from Musial's bat would have been a triple if Outfielder Luis Olmo had not bounded high into the air against the left-center-field wall and made the catch-of-the-month...
...Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing." Some press associations "use their radio circuits to break in green men: When they begin to get good they are transferred to the newspaper wire." Thus, radio wire services largely fail in "their obligation to write brightly, intelli gently, informatively, entertainingly." The committee found that stories...