Word: melons
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...softball league, Adams' Alex Coburn baffled Winthrop House batters for seven innings with his "melon ball," as the Gold Coasters gave the Deacons a 5 to 0 whitewash...
...York Times' annual "Fashions of the Times," sportive designers presented living caricatures of the three basic silhouettes of the "New Look" (see cut): the melon, the pyramid, and the "derrière de Paris...
...Lanchow, China, where Henry Agard Wallace had distributed some honeydew seeds in 1944, appeared a new (to China) type of melon. The Chinese gratefully named it the Hua Lahse...
Squeaking Wheel. The syndicate had been formed with State Department blessing. Ever since early this year, when the Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum announced they would cut in on the Saudi Arabian oil melon long monopolized by Standard of California and the Texas Co. (TIME, March 24), the independents had screamed for their share. They protested that foreign oil imports were cutting into their domestic markets...
...week, a converted C-47 of the small, G.I.-owned Burke Air Lines took off from Newark with 31 Puerto Rican passengers. Just before dawn, over the swampy flatlands near Melbourne, Fla., first one, then the second engine failed. The plane smashed through swamp pine, broke open like a melon on the soggy ground. Twenty-one were dead. Fifteen had somehow survived...