Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lowly Chicago Cubs struck another blow at the Cardinals' pennant hopes yesterday by edging the Redbirds, 6 to 5. Ace St. Louis outfielder Stan Musial committed one of his rare errors in a bad spot, for the two runs that scored subsequently proved to be the winning margin. Bob Rush was the winning pitcher for Chicago though he was aided by four shutout innings of relief pitching by Walter Dubiel...
...Hero," an aging visionary; Bud, a sex-happy racketeer; Paul, a boy trying to do the man's work of revolution, and his sister Anna, the eternal fraulein. The conquerors include a commanding general whose rifle-cracking speech sounds borrowed from George Patton; the general's rare-do-well nephew, who keeps his wife in a nervous sweat and Anna in a little apartment, and a Congressman who bellows in public to inspect the security files, and pants in private to visit a brothel...
Depositor. In Great Falls, Mont., hospital attendants, after looking high & low for the rare type of blood needed to give Jacob Dirkes an emergency transfusion, found that the only pint available was the one that Dirkes had donated a few days before...
...current Psychosomatic Medicine, Dr. William H. Perloff of Philadelphia vigorously debunks the supposed importance of hormones in determining sexual appetites. Although most widely used in treating impotence and frigidity, hormones are useful, says he, only in the rare cases where these disorders are plainly caused by a hormone imbalance. Both homosexuality and milder cases where patients show mannerisms of the opposite sex are entirely psychological in origin, says Perloff. For these, hormone treatments are useless...
...this time, bobbing to the beat with an impish smile, she was giving them everything-boogie-beat, bop-beat ("You don't hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land...