Word: inge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ing twice and driving in another run on his homer to left center. Crosby showed a great deal of speed as he scored three times, reaching on a walk, a single, and a double...
...Chinese Master of the Universe, Celestial Emperor Chia Ch'ing, seemed singularly unimpressed by the British Mistress of the Seas. In the year of the Battle of Waterloo, he all but slammed the one door open to Britons in China-the East India Company's station at Canton. When the traders petitioned for relief, London decided to send an ambassador extraordinary to the potentate in Peking. What ensued had no parallel until last week (see below...
...night his mission reached the capital, tired and travel-stained, the ambassador received an abrupt summons from Emperor Chia Ch'ing: appear immediately at the imperial residence. Amherst stood on his dignity and refused, pleading first fatigue, then illness. The Emperor promptly sent a court physician who reported back that the Briton was malingering...
Angrily, Chia Ch'ing ordered the mission to turn home without an audience...
...drove as most people do, navigat -ing traffic in Boston, New York, Washington, Baltimore, Chattanooga, Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston...