Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holt tired in the seventh and final frame, however, as his opponents, trailing 6 to 2, staged a last-minute uprising that came within inches of tieing the score. With two down and mates on second and third, Deacon hurler "Carl" Hubbell sent a looping single over first base to bring in two runs...
Veterans in various stages of khaki dress and nervousness walked into a massive grey building on Manhattan's noisy Seventh Avenue. They came singly and in pairs, in tow of wives, sweethearts, mothers, fathers. On the ninth floor they found a friendly receptionist who took them in hand, ushered them into a pastel green haven with a fascinating array of gleaming gadgets and tweedy psychiatrists. The psychiatrists worked swiftly and efficiently. By nightfall 180 troubled veterans had spilled their principal worries, trooped out. Scrawled on the wall outside was an eloquent parting shot: "Kilroy was here...
Sporting a hole around second base big enough to drive through in a Mack truck, the Funsters lost a three run lead in the final innings as their opponents capitalized on infield hits and wild throws. Manager, Bob Curley, ended the contest in the last of the seventh, when his bounding ball over second went for a single to score the tie-breaking run from third...
...Holt pitched the Gold Coasters to an extra-inning, 3 to 2 victory over a game Leverett aggregation. The Bunnies tied the score 2 to 2 in the first of the sixth on Gordy Grant's long double to center, and put men on second and third in the seventh with none...
...most unusual quality was its shortness: 33 minutes. Its five quick movements tumbled after each other, three of them without so much as a break. Instead of the shimmering wit of a Mozart or Haydn, they had familiar noisy devices from Shostakovich's tumultuous hour-long Seventh and Eighth symphonies. In the frail little Ninth, the whooping brasses and bassoon cadenzas were like 16-in. guns mounted on a PT boat...