Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surface, the lives of J. Robert and Frank Oppenheimer resembled a brotherly game of follow-the-leader. Robert became a nuclear physicist; so did Frank, who is nine years younger. Robert helped invent the atomic bomb; Frank went to work on the A-bomb project. Last week the brothers appeared before congressional investigating committees, but beyond that there was no similarity in their performances...
...days at the expensive Edgewater Beach Hotel, where the Phillies and Eddie were staying. She told a girl friend mysteriously that by the following night the girl would have all kinds of exciting things to talk about. The next afternoon she and another girl friend saw most of a game in which the Phils beat the Cubs 9-2. Eddie got a hit and Ruth was happy. Ruth went back to the hotel by herself and got all dolled up. She even put a pair of flashy, brilliant-studded combs in her hair...
...Church, its strong international organization, its methods of authority, explain partly its effectiveness," Barrois concludes. "Looking back on our divided Protestantism, we feel, by contrast, weary and powerless. Seeking for a remedy, we may be tempted to copy the methods of the Roman Church, and to play our own game of power politics. I say 'tempted,' for this is nothing else than a temptation, the temptation of the easy way. We know as Christians that there is really no easy way through the difficulties of an unchristian world...
...could tell warming up before a game how he would do. "If you can snap off your curve so it breads like a ball rolling off a table, then you're strong," he says. The great fireballer had long ago ceased to rely solely on his fast one in a clutch. He had taken a salary cut (from last year's $87,000), because he finished 1948 with only 19 victories. "The way the wolves howled, you might think that was bad," he says, defensively, "and they're howling harder this year. The crapehangers love to bury...