Word: scratches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mike Schumann and pinch-hitter Ron Cheney led off with scratch singles. Then Dick Morrison, attempting to sacrifice, bunted a low, twisting pop-up down the third base line. Emmet made a head-first dive for the ball, knocking it into foul territory, and the bases were loaded. Clearly rattled by the play, the tall lefthander walked the next two batters, forcing in two Eli runs, before he was finally replaced by Byron Johnson...
...feel of it, we tried some experiments. With the plane refueled, we headed back to the acrobatic area. Brett's usual rear-seat man, ist Lieut. Arthur Brattkus, had prepared a mental-alertness test for me during our coffee break. On the back pages of a scratch pad he had written three elementary problems in arithmetic. These represented a mild foretaste of what a space pilot might have to do in the weightless state. Would my gravity-free brain be clear enough to solve them...
...that requires network stations to hire a quota of "live" musicians whether they ever tootle a note or not. In 1951 he removed one major obstacle to the release of old films to TV by approving the project, provided that the studios 1) rescored the films (i.e., started from scratch with union musicians), and 2) paid 5% of TV profits into the Music Performance Trust Fund. He scored his biggest victory over canned music in 1942 when he pulled his musicians out of all the nation's recording studios and demanded that they get a royalty on every record...
...this setting yesterday. It was supposed to be baseball, but the shades weren't convinced. The Crimson won the contest, 6 to 2, thanks to an assortment of nine walks, five wild pitches, and six errors by the B.U. team. The winners made only five hits (mostly of the scratch variety) and not one of their runs was earned...
...thinking this way: "The only way we can win this is to wrap it up very, very early. In our position, that's the risk we're most willing to take, and it's the least of our worries. When you start from scratch, you've got to run like the dickens all the way." ¶The House Ways & Means Committee is ready to recommend a bill providing a three-year extension of the reciprocal trade program, a compromise between President Eisenhower's five-year request and the one-year-and-no-more demands...