Word: navels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three walks, a sacrifice hit and a tworun scoring bloop double for Nichols in the eighth inning spelled Crimson defeat for the first time this season. Jim Congleton relieved Hoffman and was the victim of the banjo blow. The JV's next game is against Quonset Navel Station tomorrow...
...with care and passion against the stern Spanish landscape. His best scenes have the faithfulness and the feeling of fine color plates in a history book-King Philip's drunken dance among the corpses at Chaeronea, the hurling of the spear into Asia, the symbolic blow at the navel of a continent when Alexander cut the Gordian knot, the sordid grandeur of Darius' doom, the murder of Cleitus in a childish...
...captain, was head of the Dutch Military Intelligence in Indonesia after World War II. He won the lasting hatred of Indonesians by helping to suppress the Indonesia revolt against the Dutch (1947-49), was accused of using inhuman interrogation methods, e.g., putting a boring tick on the navel of a prisoner and waiting for the man to break. When he decided to return to the new Indonesian republic as a Dutch shipping firm executive, his friends warned him against...
...Marx: several years ago, at Vallauris, France, Irving Berlin and I met Picasso; he'd been making abstract statues-incorporating broken bits and pieces from his children's toys (one creation had a tin washbasin in its stone stomach and a toy propeller imbedded in its navel). We promised to send the children some new toys and asked Louis Marx to ship a few and bill us (which he never did). Santa Marx sent a huge crate of toys, but it took two years for the children to finally receive them, because French customs officials were wary...
Ever since Homer called it "the navel of the sea," Malta has been an island in search of an umbilical cord. 'Alone and vulnerable in the Mediterranean, 150 miles south of Italy, the rock (9 by 17 miles) has no economic value. But a fine deep harbor on its northeast shore has brought it the "protection" of a succession of great seafaring peoples, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, and for nearly 300 years, the crusading Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. Napoleon cut that tie. Then came Nelson, and the island, at the request of the Maltese themselves, became a crown...