Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the score for Taft seemed to be: one hit, no runs, one error...
...occasion was the campaign for the by-election in Liverpool's grimy Edge Hill district, where both Labor and Conservatives waited anxiously to see what effect, if any, Britain's crisis might have on Labor's vote. When the votes were counted last week, the score was: Labor, 10,827; Conservative, 8,874; Liberal, 910. In 1945 the Labor Party had carried the Edge Hill district by a margin of 6,039. Last week's vote was a loss of some 2,300 votes for Labor. Said Conservative Party Chairman Lord Woolton: "The drastic lowering...
...been expedient, when the Labor Government was frittering away the U.S. loan, to minimize Sir Stafford Cripps's cries of trouble ahead by calling him Cassandra. But Sir Stafford had known the score all along, and in the gloom of crisis last week, it was Cassandra who had to stand up and announce the score to the British people. It was a grim score...
...sets from Champion Jake Kramer, whose play was incredibly sloppy. Then King Jake got down to business, and with a fine series of service aces, drop-shots and volleys managed to keep his crown, so that he can profitably quit it (he is about to turn pro). The score: 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. When Kramer took a bow-unsmiling, grey-faced and relieved-he got a thin ripple of applause. When Parker bowed, the ovation lasted more than a minute. The new women's singles queen: blonde Louise Brough, who beat...
...Robertson, in charge of the playground, found, like others before her, that the children got far more affection than those of small upper-class families. But it was casual affection; at the end of hot summer days-so Miss Robertson was told-the police could always pick up a score or so of babies left behind on Dublin Bay strand...