Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All season a shadow named Danny Gardella had hung over organized baseball. Danny, a New York Giant outfielder of mediocre talents, who had beetled off to join the ill-fated Mexican League in 1946, was suing baseball for $300,000-and challenging the whole system of "reserve clause" contracts which...
The announcement in World Series week that Danny was back in the fold, and had signed with the St. Louis Cardinals for $5,000 a year, caused little flurry. But last week, with the series over and Gardella asserting loudly that "there was no cash settlement," sportwriters began speculating about...
All this happened, Kuiper believes, about three billion years ago. It was over in a few thousand years-a mere jiffy on the astronomical timescale.
Later, in a hospital, 20-year-old Gayle Keen angrily told another reporter: "I was lying there in the wreckage when I saw a man approaching, and I thought: 'Thank God, here is help at last.' Instead, he just leveled a camera at me, and bang! then he...
Adman Bruce Barton (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) knows just how he sells products and ideas: "Say it simply, say it over & over, say it in one-syllable words." He rates the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the Gettysburg Address as triumphs of simplicity and brevity: each contains...