Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soldiers Field. Ted Watts, the Bruin pitcher, started hurling as if he were out to get a no-hitter, by setting the first nine men down in quick order without so much as one ball going to the outfield. The first hit given up by Watts was in the fifth inning and that to his opposing hurler, Jack Wallace...
...fifth was due entirely to Wallace's wildness. He hit two batters in a row and then heaved a wild pitch way over Herb Eckenroth's head, allowing one of the runners to score from second. The only earned run that Brown scored was pushed across the plate in the sixth...
...real scramble for power will come in the Navy. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, chief of the Pacific Fleet, is still four years short of retirement age, wants the COMINCH job. The Fifth Fleet's quiet, hard-working Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance, 59, is also a leading candidate. Navy "radicals" (i.e., proponents of a break from the Navy's tradition of ancient admirals) would like to lop off the top 10% of the service's greening brass, lower the retirement age, put in a young admiral as boss. Their favorite, No. 175 on the list of admirals: lean...
...days of rioting, unsurpassed in Buenos Aires for 26 years. The same day, while the victory celebrants were whooping it up elsewhere, a score or so of pro-Government hoodlums, "uniformed" in white raincoats and armed with brass knuckles and revolvers, marched down the Calle Florida, Buenos Aires' Fifth Avenue. They shouted "Viva Perón!" "Down with democracy!" "Down with the Jews!" They smashed the windows of pro-Allied shopowners, and looted their window displays...
Bigart was with the Seventh Army in Sicily, saw the Fifth Army liberate Rome, and watched MacArthur land in the Philippines. He was in action at Leyte, and invaded Okinawa with the Tenth Army. Other correspondents learned to respect him as a reporter who was "trying to build his reputation at the cannon's mouth." His dispatches appeared in only one paper, so his by-line was not as well known as many; but he was one of the war's best reporters...