Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Young will start at short, although Charlie Cabot is slated to see a lot of action. Ben Akillian, a center fielder with a strong arm, will follow Young to bat. Starting pitcher Jack Donelan, one of the most dependable hitters on the squad, will bat cleanup...
...there was a boat crossing the Atlantic with black aboard, we'd follow its progress across the Atlantic, and wait for it to dock. If we heard it was at Liverpool, some of us went out to meet the trucks on the way from the docks. We begged the drivers not to stop even for a meal on the road, but to rush the black to the factory. It was terrible, desperate...
...year-old Thomas Merton, who has retired from the world to live under a monastic rule so strict that it forbids even the self-indulgence of talking. Trendspotters have begun to wonder whether some of the U.S. reading public, in its search for peace, subconsciously wishes it could follow...
...preaching of hell, said His Holiness, "is more than ever urgent today." The duty of the church, "before God and men, is to teach it ... as Christ revealed it . . . Desire for heaven is a more perfect motive than fear of eternal punishment, but from this it does not follow that it is the most effective motive to hold . . . [people] far from sin and convert them...
Ninety-one years have passed, but "whiggedie whellow" is as unruly and outrageous as ever, never missing a chance to roar, laugh and tear the newspaper apart. In three books just published, U.S. readers will have a grand chance to follow G.B.S. through those nine decades...