Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With two out and two men on base, Bill Rodgers, playing shortstop for the injured Kasarjian, got the second of his two hits, a drive deflected off the pitcher's glove to the second baseman, who fell down and shoved the ball toward first. When Leamy broke for third Balboni was forced to come home and was tagged out by catcher Tom Christopher...
...collateral, it called up Griswold, advised him that it would deliver the blow gently by selling over a period of several weeks. Snapped Griswold: "Send them in this afternoon." M.I.T. redeemed $200,000 worth out of its cash reserve (still kept for that purpose)-and the financial world got the point...
Occasionally, the hard trading instincts of M.I.T.'s trustees have softened ever so little. The trustees once decided that the liquor industry was a good investment, decided to try whisky stocks. When Vance, Sanders got wind of the plan, it was horrified. A partner gathered up the cards of 1,200 M.I.T. shareholders, walked into a trustee meeting and threw them on the table. They represented Baptist institutions, Christian Scientists, Catholic convents, and other investors who might take a dim view of liquor-even in their portfolios. The trustees hastily backed down...
...more pedestrian note, the Alosp brothers concentrate nearly a third of their book, The Reporter's Trade, on an attack on bureaucratic secrecy regulations and devote the rest of their space to smug discussion of how they got around these regulations. Their opening chapters on what it is like to be an aristocrat and a reporter, how Washington reporting has changed, and the mortal penalty a society pays for not facing its big decisions in the open are only occasionally either penetrating of powerful. The selected columns which make up the body of the volume are neither effective records...
...Moors, where 100 feet of bookshelves are being installed at their request, the Bevingtons will spend the summer in England, with a week or so on the Continent. While in England, the Bevingtons plan to do some writing and studying, as well as traveling. Bevington said, "I've got to read a lot of Henry James," then corrected himself, "I want to read a lot of Henry James...