Word: rested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nephew, Frank Hague Eggers. But Eggers lacked his uncle's sure grip, and now needed the old man's help to get reelected. Boss Hague hurried home from "retirement" at Florida's race tracks. Last week he shouted at a Democratic rally: "I really wanted to rest . . . But I stated that if conditions changed I would be back . . . And I am back. I am moving in. You knew I would never desert...
Digging by Hand. The drill ran into trouble just short of the 100-ft. mark. In relays, men were lowered by a hoisting bucket to dig the rest of the way by hand. It was grueling work. Dirt and rocks as big as a man's head had to be hoisted up bucket by bucket. Burly Bill Yancey, a 38-year-old sewerage contractor who had been on a wartime underwater demolition team, dug for two hours and 20 minutes before he was hauled...
...team's outlooks are not all bad, though. They were in their present state of weakness last Thursday when they played the varsity, and they managed to hold the big, experienced team down to nine points while gaining five for themselves. The hopes for today's game rest with the attackmen, as they did in the game with the varsity...
...rest of the team breaks down into a competition between Tim wise and Al Switzer for the regular first base job, a four-way scramble for the right field berth, and a fight between Bill Rickey and Charlie Cabot to see if Henry Young plays short with Hickey at third or third with Cabot at short...
...claims that bad weather and the horrendous physical condition of several of his charges have put him behind schedule. The former forced the shells off the river for one of the crucial vacation-day practice sessions, while rough waters and rain slowed down training for much of the rest of that week...