Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reflexes that allow him to wait until a ball is halfway to the plate before he commits himself. Though reflexes and muscles are both 37 years old, they are still good enough to enable Stan to belt baseballs at the remarkable early-season clip of .509-good enough to lead both leagues. He has already broken the National League endurance mark with 895 consecutive games, boasts the highest lifetime slugging average (.580) in the league, has moved up to fourth among major leaguers in total bases (behind Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker...
...Beating to windward in light air, American Skipper Warner Willcox eased his sleek, 33-ft. International Class sloop into a commanding lead, finished well ahead in the last of seven races to lead his team to victory over the Bermudians for the 51-year-old Amorita Cup, grand prize of Bermuda Race Week...
...SALES LEAD among U.S. department stores went to 42-link Federated chain (Bloomingdale's of Manhattan, Abraham & Straus of Brooklyn, Filene's of Boston). Federated edged Allied Stores for first time, $635 million to $632 million in 1957, earned $25 million to Allied's $12.3 million...
...live for a long time in a satellite. Van Allen figured that the radiation level inside the satellite might reach about 0.06 roentgens per hour. At this rate a man would receive in five hours his maximum weekly permissible dose of 0.3 roentgens. A small amount of lead shielding would reduce the dose to a supportable level. The crew of an outbound spaceship need not worry about the radiation belt. If moving fast enough to leave the earth, they would pass through it in about 20 minutes...
...only guilt is her innocence-the cad (Sean Connery) never told her he was married. He is a great big sophisticated British newscaster, she is a poor little wide-eyed American newspaper correspondent. They meet in London during World War II, and she never doubts that bedding will lead to wedding until he tells her the awful truth. "I don't want to hurt you," he explains, "but I don't want to hurt my wife and child either." To make matters worse, Lana has already ditched her steady beau (Barry Sullivan). "I'll have to look...