Word: peg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories on President-elect Eisenhower's trip to the Korean front. His byline, as a top Associated Press reporter, was for years among the most widely known in the U.S. Last week globetrotting, leg-weary Newsman Don Whitehead, 51, hung his hat to stay. Its peg: Knoxville, Tenn.-the same city he had left as a rising young journalist 24 years ago to make the world his beat. His new assignment: columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel (circ...
Behind the lower U.S. price of a can of drip grind or a jar of instant lies a revolutionary new Brazilian coffee policy. For years Brazil operated as though it grew all the coffee in the world, refused to sell for less than its own pegged price, watched its markets and export income dwindle. Last year Brazil pulled out the peg, let prices seek their level, began selling hard. By August, coffee sales were setting records, and by last week the first two major effects could be plainly measured...
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Gallused, collarless and tieless, his straw boater firmly planted on his head, brush-mustached Chris Smith spent a lot of time sitting in the sun whittling decoys, puffing his big cigars down to a stub (held with a wooden peg), and just thinking. He got to wondering about the waterbugs he saw skating the waters around Algonac. "Some day," he told Jay, "somebody is going to build a boat like those bugs-one that will go on top of the water instead of through...
...Tufts lead built up by a walk, stolen base, and single in the first inning. Johnson's only other moment of weakness came in the sixth, when he walked the first two men. A stroke of bad luck filled the bases when, on a ground ball, Harrington's peg to second arrived just too late to force the runner. A fielder's choice and a sacrifice fly then brought in two runs...