Word: mounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the situation there is still far from clear. This left only pitching, the most uncertain part of the pre-season prognosis--"and the most crucial," as Shepard said with some emphasis. Through the whole of the afternoon he had paraded one man after another to the Briggs Cage mound, as part of an almost desperate search to uncover some new pitching talent. So far, apparently, the search has not turned up any new Bob Fellers...
...postponement, and Inao's luck changed. He beat the Giants 6-4. Next day he relieved in the fourth inning, won his own game 4-3 with a tenth-inning homer. Inao got a two-day break as the teams switched cities, then he was back on the mound again. He hurled a three-hit 2-0 shutout to square the series, returned the next day to apply the clincher 6-1. "Unbelievable." said Eddie Stanky of the touring St. Louis Cardinals. "He looked as if he could pitch another nine innings." Said Inao: "I was tired after three...
Ryne Duren, Casey Stengel's flame-thrower who followed Whitey Ford and Art Ditmar to the mound, fired his blinding fast ball past the Braves from the sixth to the 10th when he suddenly lost his stuff. The big fellow with the thick glasses struck out the side in the sixth and ninth, fanning eight in 4 2/3 innings before he faltered with two out in the 10th...
Israelites on the Plain. In the land of the Bible, diggers probed into ruins and legends that were old when Britons did not exist and Romans were savages. On the narrow coastal plain of southern Israel stands a rounded mound 100 ft. high covering 50 acres. It is a "tell," a heap of debris, hiding the remains of an ancient city. Israel is lumpy with tells, but this one is more famous than most because Archaeologist William F. Albright...
...crowd massed before a huge, circular grass mound under which are buried the thousands of unidentified victims* of the first A-bomb drop exactly 13 years ago. Green wreaths were soon piled about the mound; a forest of incense sticks smoldered fragrantly. A bell tolled, signaling a minute's silence-but some women wept aloud. Then, watched by the silent crowd, Hiroshima's Mayor Tadao Watanabe released 800 doves. Ten black-robed Buddhist priests began a solemn, monotonous chant of prayers that would continue until sundown...