Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rescue squad sank a shaft into the mound to look for bodies. While they were working, "a smallish, quick-moving man came up and asked: 'Where's my rabbits?' He received no answer. 'Four I 'ad,' he said, 'kept 'em in the-Anderson [shelter], and this morning I saw two of 'em up the top of Beaton Street.' Ford wondered if his warden's training should have included elementary rabbit catching...
...Smith said. 'Head here, legs there, body bent round here.' 'Very awkward,' said Smith." Then Ford looked. "There was no blood or gross mutilation. But the bodies had become part of the debris; they had become one constituent of the many constituents of the mound. They had been crushed and pressed into the decomposed raw material of the five houses...
Wood might be able to return to the mound this afternoon, but it would be a tough assignment. Coach Stahl of Harvard, however, has a bit more to choose from. He could send Charley Brackett or Burgy Ayres to the hilt if Waldstein could not return...
Captain Walt Juszczyk is expected to take the mound again for Brown, having maintained his pitching form since he struck out ten of Coach Stahl's team, allowing only ten scattered hits two weeks ago. Against a narrowly victorious Boston College team last Saturday Juszczyk limited the usual heavy hitting of the B. C. boys to six safe clouts, fanning nine...
Beside Waldstein, the other players available for mound duties against the Elis are Jake Schwede, who took over for lefty Bud in the sixth. Saturday, Burgy Ayres, and Charlie Brackett. Schwede, although slightly wild, pitched competently against the Crusaders, rescuing himself from very tight situations twice. Once he leaded the bases with one out, but managed to finish off the next two men, and cut off any scoring that inning...