Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry's last line paraphrases the title of a hit song at the time...
Scopes, whose trial has been dramatzed into the Broadway hit "Inherit the Wind," was defended by the noted trial lawyer Clarence Darrow. William Jennings Bryan, in his last public appearance, was the state's prosecutor...
...Birdie had a few more years of playing ahead. In 1947 he was traded to the Boston Red Sox, where he hit as well as he ever had, showed a remarkable talent for making friends with terrible-tempered Ted Williams, and only fell into disfavor when he opened his mouth once too often. In the fall of 1950 he called some of his teammates "moronic malcontents" and "juvenile delinquents." He was promptly traded to Cleveland. In 1953, just as soon as they could get a catcher to take his place, the Indians sent Birdie to the Cleveland farm in Indianapolis...
...reads bedtime stories to his three button-nosed girls-Susan, 5^, Elizabeth, 4, and Patricia, 2^-Birdie never gets away from the great American game. "Instead of Jack and Jill going up the hill," says Mary, "Birdie will say, 'Jack went out, picked up a bat and hit a home run.' Instead of Peter Rabbit going under the fence into Mr. Whatshisname's garden, he'll say, 'And Peter Rabbit got a base on balls and Mopsy was up next.' Sometimes I pick up the same story and the children...
...Italian diplomat, who served as post-World War I Ambassador to Berlin, London, Tokyo and the U.S. (1925-32); in Rome. His forceful protest against a personal attack on Mussolini by Major General Smedley D. Butler, U.S.M.C. (who accused II Duce of running over a child, called him a "hit-and-run driver") resulted in an apology from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson...