Word: lone
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Captain Ken Rossano held the Quakers to five scattered hits and a lone sixth inning run, as his teammates built up an early 7-0 lead for an easy victory. Dom Repetto pitched the ninth inning as Rossano left for a pinch-hitter...
...three bullets into the head of her husband Martin, 67. But hardly had the jury been sworn in when the case became a cause. Counsel for the defense told the court that Mrs. Black waived her right to a public trial. Judge Donald Geary promptly ordered spectators out. A lone newsman, Don Engdahl...
Perry Driggs provided the only bit of consolation for the varsity golf team in the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Tournament at Cornell yesterday, as he was the lone Crimson qualified for the individual championships. But he was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by G. C. Gerhart of Penn State...
Like Shane and Hondo, Jubal is just one of those ordinary cowboys who can shoot like Buffalo Bill, ride like the Lone Ranger and smile like Roy Rogers. And, like every other cowboy (except Roy Rogers), Jubal has had an unhappy family life--Mama Jubal hated him intensely and Papa Jubal was sliced to pieces by a steamboat...
Bony, surefooted, able to withstand heat and live on prickly pear and little water, the longhorn was a perfect mate for the environment and multiplied on the wild ranges. By the time the Lone Star State won its independence, there were 80,000 longhorns in Texas, more critters than humans. Yet by 1920 the longhorn was almost extinct. It carried too much leg, flank and horn in proportion to edible beef, and cowmen simply could not afford to keep...