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...ball across the plate. Satisfied that he could have made it in that time, Jackie scurried back to third base and took a deep breath. Next pitch, as Beggs involved himself in another slow-motion windup, Robinson was off like an express, rushing for the plate. The pitcher froze like a man with a high-voltage electric wire in his hand. Jackie went home standing...
...million loan to Britain, and of "discrimination" and of "convertibility" (see INTERNATIONAL) . The conferees could bring about no full solution of the crisis; that was for the U.S. Congress and for Parliament, if a solution could be found. What the conferees could do they did. They suspended convertibility, froze what was left of Britain's loan, and in effect closed the bank, as Franklin D. Roosevelt did on the first day of the New Deal...
This was the first ripple to disturb the smooth flow of the tea trade since 1942, when the Japanese overran 35% of the world's sources. Tea still came from India and Ceylon. Though supply was short, the Allies froze prices at the 1942 level (while coffee prices rose 68%, cocoa...
...only to vote the straight Republican ticket, to pick up supplies and to get their old-age pension checks. The checks were one modern convenience to which Gil had no objection. With them, he and Maggie got along fine until the winter of 1946. Then they fell sick, almost froze to death, and were taken by a rescue party to a hospital at Suffern. When they got well, they were sent to the Rockland County poor farm...
Once, as the frightful sound bellowed louder, White's fingers froze to the control valve. He forgot what he was doing, or why. So did all the others present. For five minutes they stood paralyzed until an outsider ran in and broke the clinch...