Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naguib's intention was to purge the army and the government of corruption and take Farouk down a peg. But the more extreme members of the officers' committee urged him to get rid of the King altogether. They were backed up by the Moslem Brotherhood, a fanatic, powerful secret society, 500,000 strong...
...picture (left) in the August 14 issue of LOOK (What's on America's Mind). Imagine our surprise to reappear as part of LOOK Recalls the Turbulent Era (March 20). The picture, as I remember it, was taken in the Greyhound bus station in Washington. D. C. Peg and I were on our honeymoon. I guess we looked a little glum because I was scheduled to leave in a few days for Korea...
Robinson also starred in the field. His perfect peg from deep right field caught catcher Lou Murgo at third, and kept the Browns from making the first a really big inning. Webb's walk to lead off batter Karb started the trouble. Successive errors by Charlie Walsh and Hank Young, plus a missed double play sent two quick runs across the place...
...celebrate his homecoming after a four-month tour of Europe, Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week penned a "Patriotic Pome" for his column. While it failed to prove conclusively either that travel is broadening or that Peg is even a bottom-rung poetaster, it did give him a chance for a rare and sardonic bow to his critics. Excerpts...
...quarters of the College yesterday. Big surprise was Senator Estes Kefauver's pronounced defeat of President Harry S. Truman and the state Democratic machine. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's decided sweep of the Republican delegates and his popular vote set Senator Robert A. Taft's nomination hopes back a peg...