Word: half
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew," said beaming Tommy Henrich, "was I had him in a hole. I was just looking at the ball, and it looked pretty good." Henrich swung and the ball sailed into the Yankee Stadium's right-field stands for a home run. In the last half of the ninth inning, ailing (back injury) First-Baseman Henrich had robbed Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' towering Negro righthander, of a four-hit shutout in his first World Series pitching assignment, and won the Series' opening game for the Yankees...
...Brooklyn half of the inning, the hard-fighting Dodgers smashed out two home runs, but they were not enough...
This week 100,000 jammed grandstands, pavilions and infield to watch Europe's richest horse race, the Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players...
...many artists must fall by the wayside," mused aging Master Henri Matisse, "for the one that comes through." Most of the 1,000-odd artists exhibiting in Paris' annual "Salon d'Automne" last week had indeed fallen by the wayside. But at least a half dozen had come through...
...first academicians to defy Hitler by refusing to take the oath of loyalty. As a result, he was barred from Germany, where most of his teaching and preaching had been carried on. In the summer of 1946, when Bonn's war-ruined university was reestablishing itself in a half-blasted castle, Theologian Barth was invited to return. Lecturing at 7 o'clock in the morning, "after we had sung a psalm or a hymn to cheer us up," competing with the racket of rubble-clearing machinery outside his classroom, Barth spoke, without notes, on the Apostles' Creed...