Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, Cordell Hull had "no special festivities" (but a flock of telegrams from the world's great) on his 78th birthday, his first outside Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital in four years...
...Yankee Stadium. On his first time in at the plate, Joe DiMaggio struck out. Then Pitcher Allie Reynolds walked three Red Sox in a row and Relief Pitcher Joe Page walked two more. By the time the hitting-and-walking uprising was put down, the Red Sox were four runs ahead. His third time up, Joe DiMaggio doubled; Slowly, the Yankees began to nibble away at the Red Sox lead. Left-hander Page, getting a grip on himself, said: "Whenever I got a little tired, I looked at that guy [DiMaggio] and said to myself, 'If he can play...
...pianos. But he found pilfering the easiest way. The only trouble was that he almost always got caught. Finally, in 1940, he was picked up in Memphis for breaking into a store, stealing a $25 radio. It was his 20th conviction and his fourth in Tennessee, and in Tennessee four strikes are out. As a "habitual criminal," Frank Grandstaff was sent to the state penitentiary at Nashville for life...
...admits Dr. Alvin G. McNish of the National Bureau of Standards, the value for the speed of light may have to be changed officially. The new value suggested by Aslakson is 299,792 kilometers per second, a change of one foot in about four miles...
...only a fortnight later, a V-2 went wild internationally. It hit four miles from the center of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico (pop. 48,881), made a fearful bang and dug a crater 24 feet deep and 40 feet in diameter. No one was hurt, and the people of Juarez, enjoying their spring fiesta, thought the bang was part of the show. But the diplomatic repercussions were painful. The White Sands brass, covered with cold sweat, told Karsch to work out a system for riding herd on rockets...