Word: ninths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard could manufacture only seven base hits, one of them Win Carduff's ninth inning triple, which knocked in pinch hitter John Connolly with the final run of the game...
Coach Dolph Samborski inserted two pinch batters in the last of the ninth in a desperation attempt to regain a few squandered runs. Harris failed to reach base, but Connolly got on on a fielder's choice, scoring the third Crimson...
...long programs of symphonic works, virtually free of commercials. Best known, and probably best like of these programs was the Endowment Series which lasted a full three hours, uninterrupted except for brief program notes. The Endowment Series made possible the playing of exceptionally long works, such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the Brahms Requiem. And except for an hour or so of luncheon music, all programs were composed of uniformly high quality classical and semi-classical works...
...Ninth Floor. Three years have gone by since the hand fell on Dennis' shoulder. They were times to try the soul of a less artful dodger. Times were not good for U.S. communism. Organized labor, which had once been so tolerant of the whole business, had reacted violently against it. The party which had once controlled a good chunk of the C.I.O. unions, retained desperate control in only two big ones: the electric workers and the West Coast longshoremen. The alien cast of communism's face became plain for everyone to see. The disclosure of Communist espionage sent...
...ninth-floor office he paced up & down at conferences, a sly, chain-smoking man from whom all humor had gone. Sometimes in the middle of a discussion he stepped outside and came back with a shot of whisky, which he downed straight...