Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With one down in the last of the seventh, pinch-hitter Robert (Tie) Cobb leaped high in the air to stroke the 0 and 2 pitch out of the premises with one mate aboard...
Wheelhorse Snort. For the rest, speculation ranged from Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren (a close friend of Harry Truman's), to Illinois Senator Scott Lucas (geographically bad), to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (whom F.D.R. had listed alongside of Harry Truman as an acceptable running-mate in 1944). By convention time President Harry Truman would undoubtedly narrow the field to working size. Meanwhile Democratic headquarters was jubilant. Snorted one wheelhorse: "Six months ago everybody was running for President; now everyone is running for Vice President...
...Chris shows his contempt for the financial side of his art; at a public concert which his socialite wife has promoted for him he digresses, in mid-concerto, into A Bicycle Built for Two. But at long last he climbs off his bicycle, finds himself, his genius, his proper mate (Miss Calvert) and, thanks to her promotional talents, plays a triumphant return concert...
...autumn sunlight Asuncion hardly looked like the capital of a nation caught in the throes of civil war. Indian women and heavily laden burros carried produce to market. Men loafed in the cafes, sipping small cups of coffee and yerba mate. The seedy Palacio Lopez, where Dictator Higinio Morinigo rules with his back to the nearby muddy Paraguay River, had the easy, unguarded air of an Illinois county courthouse...
...doubles r Kramer and Falkenburg, in a five-set final over Talbert and Wood's old Davis Cup running mate, Francis X. Shields...