Word: hay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worse than crop damage is the annoyance. Their mounds, thickly set in hay or grain fields, damage mowing and harvesting machines. They get into fodder and sting the cattle that try to eat it or the humans that handle it. In places where they are thick, farmers cannot get laborers to work in the fields. In suburbs they pock lawns with their mounds, bite children playing on the grass...
Colorado's first line of McCusker, All-American Bill Hay, and Ike Scott completely controlled the puck whenever it was on the ice. They are extremely fast, their passing and plays are very polished and their back checking is ferocious...
McDonald looked about as good tonight as any goalie could. His performance was something like the game that Yale goalie Jerry Jones turned in against the Crimson at the Boston Garden except that McDonald was not as lucky. His reflexes were amazingly quick, fast enough to thwart Hay on two solos...
Half a world apart, two new U.S. envoys observed similar diplomatic traditions in their first official meetings with heads of state. In London U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, just short of 60 years after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real...
Most of the argument swirled around the "reserve clause," a device basic to baseball and other big-time professional sports. It gives the owner complete control over the career of an athlete, who is no less an article of barter than a bale of hay. The owners' case for the reserve clause is that it prevents wealthy owners from monopolizing all the best talent and thereby ruining the game as well as the gate. In 1922, and again in 1953, the Supreme Court, to the delight of the owners, ruled that baseball is a sport, not a business...