Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...look out over the baseball field (over the catcher's head), right field is to my right. So, it seems to me, Stan Musial squares off on the right side of the plate, not the left...
...must lean to one side," Mao Tse-tung proclaimed last July. The Sino-Soviet Friendship Association was the apparatus the Communists set up to get Chinese to lean-toward the U.S.S.R., of course. Association branches have mushroomed in every sizable Communist-held city. Shanghai's got under way last week. On a public platform adorned with huge posters of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, Shanghai's Communist leaders echoed the word: "We want to lean to one side...
Then both tackles call signals for blocking assignments on the play. It sounds confusing, but to good T-men it isn't; on a play to the right side of the line, the players listen only to the right tackle, and let the left tackle chatter his deception signals unheeded. If the right tackle sees the "3 hole" is clogged, he may cry "Up two," and play "43" becomes "45." If the defense shifts heavily to the "play" side, he may shout "Cancel," whereupon the quarterback calls "Opposite," and the play hammers at the other side of the line...
...walked away with three prizes. But her conventional paintings of boats in a harbor, gladiolas, and a nursery, daubed between kitchen and barnyard duties, were no closer to the Illinois prairies than ex-Coastguardman Garo Antreasian's carefully composed painting of a sordid street in Indianapolis' South Side, which took grand prize at the Old Northwest...
Built on the general plan of the German V2, the Viking has one great difference. The V-2 is steered by graphite vanes set in the rocket blast, but the Viking's preset gyro instruments steer it by moving the whole rocket motor, playing the gas blast from side to side like water from a hose. After the fuel is gone, and the rocket is moving in the last of the atmosphere, small jets of nitrogen shot out of a pressure sphere keep it flying true. The proving of this new system, potentially superior to that...