Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sammy Baugh is the greatest football player in the world." This assertion comes from Cup(A) Richard Tuckey, director of the afternoon calisthenics classes at Soldiers Field and assistant football coach for the coming season, If experience is an indicator, Chief Tuckey ought to know, for he played beside the great Baugh in the seasons of 1938 and '39 on the Washington Redskins, and against him the next year on the Cleveland Rams...
...reached an agreement on an "International Monetary Fund" and on an "International Bank for Reconstruction and Development." The Fund is simply an $8.8 billion pot into which each member nation shoves a stack of its own chips. (Since there are not enough gold chips to go around, each player in international trade-unlike poker-has to use some of his own chips, valuable only in his own home.) The purpose of the pot is to enable any player, who temporarily needs the chips of an other, to shove in more of his own in order to borrow an equivalent value...
...trombone player in Earl Hines's band uses butter as a slide lubricant. 2) Saxophonist Dick Stabile dislikes a buzzy tone effect on the saxophone. 3)Give me a drink and I'll tell you everything...
...player: Mel Ott, the New York Giants' right-fielding manager, scored his 1,741st big league run on June 21, breaking the great Honus Wagner's alltime record, hung up in 1917. Ott also holds National League records in home runs (483), runs batted in (1,749), extra base hits (1,013). At a time when most veterans begin to relax, 35-year-old Ott was last week leading both leagues in home runs for the season...
There in the darkness a Moslem was worshipping. He was Dr. Aziz, educated in England, touchy as a porcupine and delightful and unexpected as a child, proud (the descendant of bodyguards of the Mogul Emperors), a good polo player, a widower with three children, filled with the turbulent, conflicting emotions of a subject people whose ancestors tamed elephants. Dr. Aziz had just been royally snubbed by the English-twice. As he sat in the mosque, repeating poetry that brought tears to his eyes and thinking that some day he, too, would build a mosque, he discovered Mrs. Moore: "Madame, this...