Word: moe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most famed and photographed member of an Eighth Air Force heavy-bomber squadron is not a pilot but a grotesque little North African donkey. Her name: Lady Moe...
Still only six months old, Lady Moe has been written up in Stars & Stripes. Her pictures have been widely printed in the British press. She is asked everywhere. This week her crowded calendar includes playing a reindeer (if antlers can be found) at the squadron's Christmas party for English school children. In January, Lady Moe will attend a charity ball in London's Grosvenor House...
...sixth inning which saw the Stahlmen bunch four hits to manufacture three runs told the story in the Jumbo affair. With two men out, Sherman Clark hit a sharp single to left, and Gleason followed with a two-bagger, Clark pulling up at third, Captain Moe Berg dumped a bunt down the third base line and Clark romped home while the Jumbo infield waited anxiously and vainly for the ball to roll foul. Walt Sorgi clouted a long double, scoring Gleason and Berg, to clinch the ball game...
...neat drag bunt laid down the first-base line in the sixth inning was all that kept Captain Warren "Moe" Berg from an absolutely perfect performance Saturday afternoon, as the Crimson nine notched a 3 to 0 triumph over Northeastern...
Meanwhile, Berg was taking very good care of his service friends. Jay Gleason's error allowed Jerry Kiley to reach base in the first, but no other Guardsman got on until the fifth, when a walk and Hegan's single were sandwiched between three of Moe's four strikeouts. The visitors loaded the bases with two out an inning later on two walks and Bill Cliggott's double, but Gleason threw out Chet Kasper on a nice play to end the threat...