Word: soft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberated. You have come over to the side of the people." Nonetheless, White spent the next three years in Chinese prison camps. Other prisoners of war who returned home testified that White became an informer on his fellow-G.I.s, was rewarded by being given special privileges and a soft job as prison camp mailman. When the armistice was signed in July 1953, White had made up his mind to stay in China. "I'd come to feel the Chinese weren't as bad as we'd been told," White said last week. "I had been thinking...
...last eight Davis Cup singles matches without losing a set. And when the visiting Americans got a look at the copper-colored center court at Barcelona's Real Club de Tenis, they knew they were in trouble. Slowed even more than normal by heavy rains, the soft surface took the bite out of the serves and volleys, made smashes as easy to handle as lobs. "The name of the game here is grub," complained the U.S.'s Frank Froehling. "Every point is a war. You can't put the ball away...
Last week in St. Louis, Hank leaned clear across the plate to reach for a wide, soft curve thrown by the Cardinals' Curt Simmons. He belted it onto the rightfield pavilion roof−but Umpire Chris Pelekoudas called him out for stepping out of the batter's box. Groused Aaron: "He didn't say anything the time before, when I did the same thing and popped up." Some pitchers think that Aaron toys with them, making himself look bad on certain pitches so they will throw the same pitches again. But Hank himself insists that there...
...years. For that matter, it is safe to skip all Major Novelists, since everyone else is presumed to have read them anyway. This narrows the field considerably, since all novelists published in the U.S. since World War II have been Major. The dinner companion who admits reading the soft-center bon-bon writers-Taylor Caldwell, Michener, Helen Maclnnes-actually loses points. History, on the other hand, is prestigious, but a sticky wicket for the novice, who by fall usually forgets which battle took place where and when, and just why General Thingummy lost...
...orbit. It had simply been car ried aloft by an Air Force C-119 trans port and cut loose at the relatively low altitude of 11,000 ft. But the prosaic flight was an effort to answer important questions' Can capsules such as Gemini be brought down to soft landings on hard ground, and can future astronauts be given any control over the point of impact? To both questions the answer was an impressive...