Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coaches, in town primarily to discuss current league rules and policies, spent most of the day trying to organize a more effective arrangement for officiating games...
...compiled an unimpressive record of three wins against four losses and a tie, but, as in many cases, this record belies the facts. B.C. coach Eddie Pellagrini, ex-utility infielder for the Red Sox, yesterday bemoaned the fact that his team, though a powerful group of hitters, has spent most of its time driving the ball into the waiting gloves of opposing fielders...
Died. Eric Blom, 70, scholarly, Swiss-born music critic for the London Observer, who spent eight years (1946-54) editing the 8,350,000-word, nine-volume fifth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians; in London...
...Farm Journal's Streeter is as much farmer as newsman. He grew up on a South Dakota livestock ranch, graduated with a degree in agriculture from Iowa State College in 1923. After college, he caught on with the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette as its first farm editor, spent days skidding down muddy roads to dig out stories in long, back-fence chats with farmers. Says he: "When you're looking for news, there's nothing that beats getting out yourself and talking to sources...
...Munoz spent his youth in the United States, first trailing his father about Washington in Puerto Rican diplomatic circles, and later as a poet-critic on his own in New York...