Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children he organized picnics and games, in which he himself joined. He made a bowling green for the men, and bowled with them. Villagers remembered how, after war's end, three youths wandered into a German minefield and Don Giorgio walked in boldly to give them help...
...rubber game, Brooklyn's big Negro righthander, Don Newcombe, silenced Cardinal bats (6-0) with the help of outfielders who chased fly balls like men on bicycles and made "impossible" catches. One smash from Musial's bat would have been a triple if Outfielder Luis Olmo had not bounded high into the air against the left-center-field wall and made the catch-of-the-month...
...straight; it was more than anybody else seemed able to do. While the Dodgers were breaking even against the Chicago Cubs and winning one from the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Cards moved across the river to the Polo Grounds and took three out of four from the Giants (with the help of three Musial homers); then they went to Boston, took two more from the Braves, with Musial clouting a homer and a triple...
...Pirates to watch Stan play. A Cardinal scout got there first. Although he was shy about most things, 17-year-old Stan had seen enough poverty to be hardheaded about money, and he signed the contract with misgivings: the Cardinals had a reputation for paying their help poorly. In 1938, when the late Judge Landis decreed that 91 Cardinal farmhands (including Musial) were free agents, Stan sat back again and awaited a call from Pittsburgh. Instead he had a personal visit from Eddie Dyer. After a long apprenticeship as a minor-league manager, persuasive Eddie Dyer had become a supervisor...
When the bees are released, they will (usually) take the sugar syrup home to the hive in the tree. If luck is with the hunter, they will bring comrades back to help carry the rest of the free lunch. When dozens or hundreds of bees are making the trip, the hunter can set his beeline in the right direction...