Word: peg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Armie Essayen hit an easy grounder to third, but the peg to second was bad and Carlson scored from first with Essayen reaching third. Ty Taylor and Bill Harford fanned, ending the inning...
...into center field. He continued on to third, and as the center fielder held the ball he kept going and scored with a headlong slide into home on a close play. He scored again in the seventh on the same play except this time the second baseman missed the peg, letting it trickle through his legs into short center. Johnny also stole second in the fifth inning and advanced to third on a passed ball. But the Crimson batters couldn't bring him in and he died on third...
Orson Welles talked like a square peg. "Actually, I don't like publicity," declared the fabulous Poo-Bah of Around the World (see THEATER). "I don't like to be photographed or interviewed. I'm afraid of being misquoted. I'm just a tired sort of male Katharine Hepburn...
...both companies, President Robert C. Stanley, Executive Vice President John F. Thompson, Vice President Paul D. Merica. The charges: 1) conspiracy to prevent competition in the nickel industry, 2) fixing prices, 3) making cartel agreements with I. G. Farbenindustrie, A. G. and two French companies to prevent competition and peg prices in the world market. Said Justice: Inco had so increased its nickel shipments to Farben in 1937 that Germany had built up a stockpile of Canadian-mined nickel for the German war machine. (Nickel is used to make armor plate...
India's festering sun beat down impartially on New and Old Delhi-on the precisely geometric, grandly drab preserves of the British Raj, on the noisy, squalid, sprawling native town. A sweat-soaked British wallah might change his shirt four times before settling down to an evening burra peg of bad Australian whiskey in the garden of the Cecil Hotel. Even the calloused, naked feet of shirtless Indians burned as they padded along the teeming Chandni Chauk. In the brassy glare, the flowering trees near the Viceroy's residence seemed to bear sparks rather than blossoms. The rind...