Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story of how that city slicker (meaning Walter O'Malley) "took" the country bumpkins (meaning our Dodger contract signers) makes all other such stories fade into insignificance. We are opposed to subsidizing big business, which organized baseball definitely is, and we hope those of our citizens -for and against the Dodger contract -can get together and draw up a new one. One that will allow us to have this team, but will give this city a fair share...
Catholic Popular Republican Party had submitted his prospective program to the Assembly, and the Deputies, wearied by a full afternoon of oratory, had adjourned for dinner in various excellent restaurants in the neighborhood. Shortly before 9 o'clock, while most were still lingering over their after-dinner coffee, news tickers pounded out word of the military insurrection in Algiers...
...O Shehab, Take Over!" Then barricades and fires erupted in Beirut itself. Beaten off by police at the U.S. embassy, a mob smashed another U.S. Information Agency library and -the invariable habit of Arab nationalist mobs these days -burned its books. Shirtsleeved young men with clubs ranged the streets looking for a fight. One gang of thugs incongruously cruised the avenues in a black Cadillac, stopping from time to time to order shopkeepers to close...
...seized De San's guns, a Chamoun-hating Druse tribal leader named Kamal Jumblatt took to the field with an army of 2,000. Cried Beirut's Al-Masa (it was a comment on Lebanese freedom that opposition newspapers appeared uncensored all week): "0 Chamoun, resign! O Shehab, take over...
Last week, after some 200 petitions flowed into Equity's Manhattan office urging him to run again, Bellamy changed his mind, agreed to go for a third term. In deference, the only other announced candidate, Negro Actor Frederick O'Neal, bowed out of the race...