Word: grandstand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that whipped plumes of spindrift over her lean sides and wet down the main deck. The light was fading and the moon hung low in the west when a score of newsmen (including Reserve Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell) leaned against the wind and made their way forward to grandstand seats in the bow. Except for a few lights on her foremast, North Carolina was dark, as she and her destroyer escorts had been every night. But inside she was alive. In fire-control stations, in the great turrets, on the bridge and below, her crew was at battle stations...
...green and the Dartmouth attack red-hot; and the about-face entirely justifies Jaakko Mikkola's recent sleepless nights. The Crimson's upset at Hanover last spring demonstrated the superiority of an experienced Senior squad over even talented novices; but Saturday afternoon those Seniors will be in the grandstand, and the Comanche amateurs of last season will be running rings around Soldiers Field track...
...teams went with her -the Chicago White Sox and the New York Giants. Her father-in-law, Charles Albert ("The Old Roman") Comiskey, founder-owner of the White Sox, had arranged a world exhibition tour for the two teams. With them she visited eight countries, sat in the same grandstand with King George V, skedaddled home just ahead of World...
...went on again at Santa Anita. The striking grooms also demanded: 1) that they be allowed to keep their admission badges although discharged by a stable owner, 2) that they receive $10 for each winning horse they handle, 3) that they be permitted to watch the races from the grandstand...
...marked by fun and frolic. Spectators and contestants chatted back & forth, on every subject from the blizzards back home to next summer's crops. A stray dog scampered on to the courts, gave the players a merry chase. When a shower started, everyone adjourned to a covered grandstand, spent an hour singing old favorites...