Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan's bow-tied Governor G. Mennen Williams, running for a sixth term, revealed that his pretty campaign helpmate, wife Nancy, was bedded with a rare disease, "infectious polyneuritis," which results in severe pain and extreme difficulty in walking...
Just as Ring Lardner warned, back in 1920, sports reporters who covered the America's Cup discovered that a yacht race rarely measures up in excitement to any old sixth at Belmont. Worse yet, most of the 241 reporters and photographers (44 papers, four press associations, 23 magazines) who uneasily went down to the sea in ships were landlubbers with no tongue for salty jargon...
...Schoendienst set up the Braves' first score in the sixth with a booming triple to center and scored when Johnny Logan's grounder went through Tony Kubek's legs for an error...
...stretch from the sixth until the 10th, Spahn retired 14 straight Yankees. Ford, who had the edge in the early going, stumbled in the eighth when he tired and gave way to Ryne Duren...
Williams' homer, a bases-empty blast in the seventh inning and his twenty-sixth of the season, broke a 4-4 tie and pushed the Red Sox to a 6-4 victory over the Washington Senators and sewed up third place for the Boston Club...