Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europeanize" them. Yet last week, when the results were in, it was the confident Germans, not the French, who were bitterly disappointed. Pro-German parties won almost two-thirds of the total vote (and 33 out of the 50 seats in Parliament), but they failed by a tidy margin to carry the 75% majority they need to push through a merger of the Saar and West Germany...
...Amateur Dave Stephens, 25, a professional milkman, ran away from Hungary's somber Sandor Iharos in a 3-mile exhibition race. His 25-yd. victory in 13:37.6 was no fluke. Only four days before, the "Flying Milkman" beat the holder of five world records- by the same margin in a 5,000-meter...
...Kaline, crack young (20) outfielder for the Detroit Tigers, won the American League batting title with an average of .340. Born on Dec. 19, 1934, Kaline became youngest man to win the championship by a margin of one day. His predecessor: Detroit's Ty Cobb, who was born Dec. 18, 1886 and first won the title in 1907 with...
Gift From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, outsold every other book of the year by a good margin, and at the 400,000 mark there was still no sign of a letup. The multiplicity and fragmentation of modern daily life were too much for Author Lindbergh, and her well-written cry of "Enough, enough!" obviously found a vast chorus of agreement...
...averages and named the Philadelphia Phillies' Center Fielder Richie Ashburn National League batting champion. Ashburn's average: .338. Other National League championships: Most Home Runs: the Giants' Willie Mays, with 51; Most Runs Batted In: the Dodgers' Duke Snider, with 136. ¶ By the biggest margin ever, the American Football Coaches Association named Michigan State's Hugh ("Duffy") Daugherty Coach of the Year. After last year's sad season (when the Spartans won 3, lost 6), Duffy fielded a team that whipped Notre Dame 21-7, won all its other games...