Word: macke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were two scores by the Tigers in the third and fourth periods. George May ran 40 yards for a touchdown in the third and Bob Mack passed to Ken Lenert in the final period...
...those were two-fisted piano players," he recalls. "Men like Sticky Mack and Doc Perry and James P. Johnson and Willie 'The Lion' Smith. With their left hand, they'd play big chords for the bass note, and just as big ones for the offbeat, and they really swang. The right hand played real pretty. They did things technically you wouldn't believe...
Thirty bowler-hatted London bankers trooped solemnly into No. n Downing Street last week, on an unprecedented summons from Chancellor of the Exchequer Macmillan. the liveliest man in the government of Anthony Eden. Urbane Harold Macmillan (who delights in his new Threepenny Opera nickname of "Mack the Knife") wanted to impress on London's top bankers the thin edge on which the British economy now rests...
...burst of inflation, he feared, would shake foreign confidence in the pound, and bring a new drain on the nation's gold reserve. In his drive to control credit, Mack the Knife has raised the government's rate on bank loans to 5½%, the highest level since 1932 Depression days, and twice the discount rate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...
...Hall of Fame, often sold batting great (lifetime average: .334) whose famed foot-in-the-bucket stance was the nemesis of Big League pitchers for most of his 21-season career (1924-44); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. As a Philadelphia outfielder in the heyday of Connie Mack's Athletics, Simmons hit over .300 for eleven straight seasons, copped the American League batting title...