Word: pennants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Suchow's main street -a broad expanse of cobblestones bisected by a barren dirt parkway-yellow-uniformed soldiers half enveloped in a thin cloud of dust tramped in an endless stream. At the end of each straggling company marched a soldier with a triangular red or blue pennant; at the rear, donkeys, loaded with heavy machine guns, plodded stiff-legged over the rough street. Trucks piled with bundles and crates swirled by. "So many troops," said a fat, black-gowned merchant, standing in front of his shop; "suddenly they are marching. Where?" He shook his head. "Wo pu-tung...
...numbered. Shortly afterwards, the St. Louis Cardinals sold Dizzy to the Chicago Cubs for $185,000, even though the Cubs knew of Dr. Hyland's findings. Last week three of the doctor's patients were easily identifiable as Cardinals. It was no secret either that the 1949 pennant hopes of the New York Giants would rise or fall on how skillfully Doc Hyland carved a bone growth from Catcher Walker Cooper's kneecap this week...
...Yankee management had timed things cagily. A week before, while everybody was watching the American League pennant playoff, they had fired popular Bucky Harris. Their complaint: Bucky hadn't been strict enough with playboys. Then, before the press could get around to objecting, the Yankees hired Casey, whom sportwriters all like...
...original inspiration for the Radcliffe statements was an urge to knit for the pennant-winning Braves. But the baseball season is over now, and apparently the quartet from Northampton rates a Harvard man in October a better bet than a baseball player next...
...addition to the three pennant winners, McInnis played for the Indians and the Braves before his retirement in 1927. He went immediately to Norwich...