Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deputies listened in hostile silence, Zoli glumly reminded them that it was not his fault that he was Premier of Italy. True to his original promise, he had resigned office just as soon as the tellers finally confirmed that without Fascist support he would have been one vote short of a majority (TIME, June 17). But when President Giovanni Gronchi, unable to find anyone else, coolly declared that Zoli was still Premier, "I felt," burbled Zoli into the silence, "that I had to accede to so high an authority." So ended Italy's longest political crisis (52 days) since...
...heard of him as a scrappy American League catcher (Detroit, Boston, Cleveland) who hated to come out second best in anything-a ball game, an argument with an umpire, a. conversation with a friend. They called him "Most Voluble Player in the Majors," but he had had only one short summer of seasoning as a minor-league manager. It was hard to believe that he knew enough tactics to manage a major-league club...
...ball.' Baseball is a game of inches. A guy catches the ball on the tip of his glove, a batter tops a ball and beats a throw to first. Or a fellow gets up in the ninth and comes through with a liner between third and short-he's a hero. Two inches the other way and he's a bum because he hit into a double play. The only thing you can do is get a little faster man to play each position, keep adding the men who can make the inches work...
...major summer music festivals have become the epicenter of a host of satellite festivals in their orbit. With the big events, e.g., Edinburgh, Salzburg, booked solid for months in advance, canny music shoppers are checking for the out-of-the-way festivals, even in the Mideast, which may be short on big-name talent but long on atmosphere. The smaller affairs can be found around almost any corner, and many offer intriguing programs...
...Garden. The live audience is alive too: about 58% of the Garden decisions have been first-time public conversions, but only 7%-8% were made by people who were previously unaffiliated with any church. The average nightly audience at the Garden is an impressive 17,690 (about 1,000 short of capacity...