Word: framed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived an austere old man consumed by illness and by strange fires of faith. His body was so frail that it seemed as if a gust of wind could blow it over; his face was sallow and flabby, his eyes were watery, his hands trembled. Yet in this fragile frame is a will tougher than the rock of the Elburz Mountains and more inflammable than the oil of Abadan. A month ago, scarcely anyone in the West had ever heard of Mohammed Mossadeq; by last week, what he said and did could powerfully affect the free world's security...
Taciturn Manager Richards, a throwback to the rough-tough John McGraw school of managing, may have no pennant winner this season, but he has coaxed and goaded a team which finished sixth last year into a first-division frame of mind. By this week the free-wheeling White Sox, leading the league in stolen bases (25 over runner-up New York with 15), had clawed and scrambled their way into second place in the standings (one game behind the world champion Yankees), and had stretched their winning streak to eleven...
Behind Boarded Windows. Premier Mohammed Mossadeq huddled his frail frame in an overstuffed chair behind the guarded doors of an office in Teheran's Parliament building. He would not budge from the room, but worked, ate and slept there, a nationalist fanatic living in fear of assassination by other nationalist fanatics. To protect himself from snipers, he ordered all the windows of his room boarded up. In an adjoining chamber, a parliamentary oil commission was drafting a plan to take over the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., declared nationalized last month...
After six straight days on the stand, George Marshall's 70-year-old frame sagged a bit and his voice was fading. "He sounds just like I feel after I have been talking for four or five hours at a stretch," said Fulbright. The hearing record had already swollen to about 401,000 words. And there were still weeks...
Penn broke the tie in the next inning on a triple and a long fly. In the third frame the visitors broke the game wide open with a four run burst. These were all unearned as five miscues and one hit allowed Penn to gain complete command...