Word: hosses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main Crimson threat came in the fifth, when Hoss Hamlen was tagged out at the plate, trying to stretch his long triple into a home run. Don Richards, left fielder, fanned three times with runners on second and third...
...Navy. He has heard for years the U.S. Navy's boast that the Japs would be a pushover.* He knows how the cruiser Mogami, some of whose welded seams parted when she fired a full salvo on her trials, was exaggerated into a kind of saltwater One Hoss Shay. He knows how the little torpedo boat Tomoduru, which, because it was overloaded with guns and torpedo tubes and had insufficient displacement, tipped over on steam trials, was exaggerated into a great turtle-turning dreadnought, built from stolen plans...
...carry you all through this yere picture. Suh, what them yankees out tha in Hollywood has sayd abaht Vuhginny is a dahrect insult to us who would be willin to give oauh blood for deah ole Vuhginny. Wha, they done even had a yankee ridin a pure bred hoss--who ever saw a yankee who could ride a hoss like some of oauh southen gentmuns...
...scorching day in 1862, a Boston Brahmin stood on the battlefield of Antietam, from which some 5,000 bodies had just been removed. The old man was the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the author of The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay and The Chambered Nautilus-Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had heard that his son, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 21, was shot through the neck, and he had dashed down from Boston to find the boy or his body. He found neither at Antietam. A week later, in Harrisburg, Pa., the Doctor ran into his son at last...