Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mauled for 15 hits in the first eight innings; yet the Pirates were still in the game, tied 9-9 with the San Francisco Giants. Out of the bullpen strode little (5 ft. 8 in., 155 Ibs.) Elroy Leon Face, and suddenly the crowd at Pittsburgh's Forbes Field knew everything would be all right. It was. Face shackled Giant batters for three innings, and the Pirates won in the eleventh...
...game. * But one night last week, in Baltimore's vast Memorial Stadium, Cleveland Outfielder Rocco Domenico Colavito stepped out of a batting slump and into the record books with four mighty swings of his 33-oz. bat. His fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated the toughest in the league for home-run hitters-no team has ever hit more...
...Trouble struck swiftly as the field pounded through the final turn in the gist running of the Belmont Stakes, third jewel in horse racing's Triple Crown for three-year-olds. Black Hills slipped on the muddy track, went down with Jockey Eddie Arcaro and rolled on him. Lake Erie, following close behind, stumbled over the tangle. Lake Erie's Jockey Wally Blum was unhurt, but Arcaro was hospitalized with a concussion and sprains. Black Hills, a foreleg fractured, was destroyed. The pile-up had no effect on the favorite, Brookmeade Stable's Sword Dancer. Runner...
...disposal plants should give a healthy boost to a drugmaker whose diversification (Aralen, Novocain, Dr. Lyons Tooth Powder, Molle Shave Cream, Energine lighter and cleaning fluid, textile and printing dyes, etc.) has already carried it far beyond the drug field. As a result, income last year topped $200 million for the first time in Sterling's 59-year history, with profits of $19 million ($2.42 a share...
...education, modern sanitation and agriculture on his impassive, faction-torn tribe, fought off encroachments of the adjoining, racist Union of South Africa; of a liver ailment; in London. Impetuous Tshekedi was exiled twice: once (1933) for ordering a white man flogged who had abused a native woman (when the field gun of a punitive force sent to depose him bogged down in the mud, Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting to the celebrated marriage of his nephew Seretse Khama to Ruth Williams, a blonde Englishwoman, when Britain feared that any provocation...