Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia the heavens opened, the earth rumbled, and millions suffered under the pestilences of a hard season...
Japan. It was typhoon season again, and the latest, called Georgia, smashed into central Honshu 150 miles southwest of Tokyo, cutting diagonally across the island before disappearing into the Sea of Japan. Flood waters and landslides destroyed bridges, blocked roads, isolating many communities. At least 139 died, 107 were missing and 1,000 injured...
From coast to coast, fans are flocking to see every minute of the most exciting baseball season in years. In San Francisco, stockbrokers, merchants and plain workers are getting away from their offices early to go out to Seals Stadium and cheer home the National League-leading Giants. In Chicago, when the American League-leading White Sox get a man aboard, the rhythmical clapping swells into waves, and a chant rolls out of the stands: "Go - go - go!" Much more than two pennant races is fascinating the fans this summer. Teams far down in the standings have somehow taken...
...Moines and Kansas City, and scores of needy patients requiring costly, round-the-clock hospital care, the funds allotted to local chapters by the National Foundation from the March of Dimes were fast running out. So the foundation asked local authorities for permission to stage out-of-season drives for emergency funds. Des Moines agreed, and more than $50,000 has been collected. But in Kansas City the request blew up a storm...
...College All-Star Football Game (ABC, 9:30 p.m.). Out of season but welcome as usual, last year's campus heroes tangle with last year's pro champs, the Baltimore Colts. Red Grange will talk it up at every whistle...