Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overjoyed that our glorious Magyar players have conquered the American reactionary agents and jumping jacks of dollar imperialism who fill those of us of the Hungarian People's Republic with disgust," Hungarian Radio Commentator Gyoergy Szepesi prattled into the microphone. The only ringside commentator at the world-champion table tennis tournament in Stockholm, ardent, 25-year-old Communist Szepesi was not going to pass up his chance to get in a plug for the new order...
Dangerous Dan. For Plaintiff Daniel ("Dangerous Dan") Gardella, the word from the bench was the best news in a long time. As a wartime outfield fill-in for the New York Giants, Dan Gardella had never done anything to get himself into baseball's hall of fame (though he hit 18 home runs for the Giants in 1945). One of his chief distinctions was off-the-field acrobatics-he could crawl out a hotel window and dangle from the ledge by his fingertips. Three years ago, after a spring training row with the Giants, he stormed off to play...
...weeks, Willie trained in a Hartford gym, while his neighbors piled in to watch. Last week, some 6,500 Connecticut fans followed him to Manhattan by auto and special trains, helped fill Madison Square Garden for a prizefight for the first time in three years...
First line wing Bill Garrity, who aggravated his broken toe in the Dartmouth game, will be resting tonight and Charley Coulter will fill his left wing position. Elsewhere the varsity lineup remains the same as Wednesday except that Johnny Chase and not Bill Yetman will make the trip as second-string goalie...
Carlos Alberto Arosemena '49 of Mexico City, Mexico, and Winthrop House, and Walter Robert McGurdy '49 of Brooklyn, New York, and the Varsity Club, were last night appointed to fill the two Class of '49 vacancies in the Student Council...