Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the winter, the Giants took on new strength while their chief rivals sagged. Milwaukee's second baseman and sparkplug Red Schoendienst, recovering from tuberculosis, will be out of play all season, and the Braves looked unimpressive as they dropped 15 of their first 21 spring training exhibitions. Pittsburgh's second-place Pirates gave up power that they could ill afford to lose when they traded Slugger Frank Thomas to the Cincinnati Reds. In the winter trading, the Giants picked up two established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years...
...Emperor Justinian, it is in one of the world's most inhospitable places. A traveler must drive 100 miles southeast from Suez across jagged wilderness, then turn off along a succession of dry stream beds for an eight-hour climb to the gates, 5,000 feet above the Red Sea. Its one tiny door swings open only for men bearing letters of introduction from the Greek Archbishop of Cairo...
...company called F X R, Inc. made news with its new issue. It had taken its modest (200,000 shares) offering to an underwriting specialist as small as itself: C. E. Unterberg, Towbin Co., a two-man firm that operates a one-room office and has won itself a red-hot reputation introducing and making markets for midgets. So successful is the firm that on the F X R issue, a string of blue-ribbon houses-Lee Higginson Corp., Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis-were glad to come in on the deal, eagerly...
...Soviets from their traditional northwestern Pacific fishing waters, Japanese boats are ranging far into the mid-Pacific to intercept the salmon as they head for Alaska spawning grounds, trap tens of millions before they can reproduce. Up to 20% of Bristol Bay red salmon runs in 1957 bore the telltale scars of long, fine-meshed Japanese gill nets, which can be strung to form a solid, ten-mile barrier across the ocean. By using these nets, say U.S. fishermen, the Japanese kill many immature, Alaska-born salmon and violate the intent of a 1953 treaty designed to prevent the Japanese...
...though, Simon's poeticizing betrays him. His final gust tastes too much of sorrow spooned with a sophomore's relish: "Soon [the wind] would blow up great storms across the plain, tear the last red leaves from the vines, strip the trees bent beneath it, its strength unimpeded, purposeless, doomed to exhaust itself endlessly, without hope of an end, wailing its long nightly complaint as if it were sorry for itself, envying the sleeping men, transitory and perishable creatures, envying them their possibility of forgetfulness, of peace: the privilege of dying...