Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Masterful in picking the right sport to pitch to and then finding it; left handed Roe should be tougher on the Yanks than fast-balling right-hander Newcombe, who came up from Montreal in May to lead the Brooks in wins--17, complete games--19, shutout--5, and strikeouts...
...injury situation was somewhat brighter yesterday. John Coan reported in uniform (sans pads) and exercised for a while, still favoring his bum right knee. Chief Bender, limping slightly, was in full uniform. He jogged around from time to time, took part in a couple of plays against the dummies and spent the rest of the afternoon ambling up and down behind the squad, as if he could hardly wait to resume regular contact duty...
...first string backfield of Bill Henry, Jim Noonan or Charlie Roche, John White, and Paul Shafer remained unchanged. Carl Bottenfield who has a broken bone in his right hand, worked with Charlie Walsh, Carrol Lowenstein, and Nick Athens but saw considerable action with the number one combination. Wingback Bill Hoaley did some particularly impressive running...
...Professor Leontief warned against the train of thought that devaluation will greatly add to the economic strength of the West and that consequently there should be little to fear. "Russia may be rubbing her hands right now in hopes the British worker will have to cut his tandard of living by such degrees that Communism will easily be able to take over Britain...
...then queried me about Indo-China, concerning which I know practically nothing, as I told him. He also asked me whether I should prefer a dictatorship of the right or the left in France. My response that I should want no dictatorship of either extreme failed to satisfy him and he insisted that I choose...