Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serving his fifth term in the House, slumped exhausted in a chair. On the eve of the nominating convention, what had started out to be almost a one-man race had turned into a suspenseful neck-and-neck finish...
Lodge also had credentials to offer. A onetime political reporter for the Boston Herald, he served as Assistant Secretary for International Labor Affairs in the Eisen hower Administration; he stayed on for several months under Kennedy to finish out his term as chairman of the International Labor Organization, which had made him the second American chairman-and the youngest-in its 42-year history...
...feet in the Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding officer's attention. He defeated Johnston in Johnston's first try for the Senate, died in 1944 before he could finish his lame-duck term...
Grunt No. 1-contentment. Grunt No. 2-"Here I am." Grunt No. 3-"I'm in a bad mood." Grunt No. 4-"Let me alone." Nursing sows have special grunts for their piglets: Sow grunt No. 1-"Come and get it." Sow grunt No. 2-"Finish your dinner." Sow grunt No. 3-"Watch out, kids. I'm going to move and may squash...
...centerfield wall," said Casey of one Met regular, "if only they don't curve it first." In one game, the Mets left eleven runners stranded, failed to score with the bases loaded and nobody out. Moaned Casey: "You pick up the bases and bats and balls when you finish a game, but home plate is supposed to just sit there all day. My players still can't find it." For a while, the Mets kept one record intact: after 46 games, they were the only team in the National League that had never been shut out. Last week...