Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tonight at 7:30 p.m., the doors of 14 Plympton St. will open wide, and the happy few will stand ready to embrace those desireous of entertaining the winter competition...
Once uncovered, a "reactionary"' is subjected to "re-education." His neighbors, his friends and his professional colleagues all "reason" with him, urge him not to drive them to the extreme step of ostracizing him. One particularly stubborn Shanghai writer managed to stand up to ten such sessions before he caved...
...first book (The Shari Lewis Puppet Book) published last week; at the age of 24, she makes more than $75,000 a year, and children write her letters: "My mother says I have to cat spinach if I'm going to grow up as big as you. Please stand up so I can see how much I have...
...Neither you nor any other minor-league manager is going to ruin that kid. He stays with me." Stay he did-long enough to hit 511 home runs, score 1,859 runs, bat in another 1,860, draw 1,708 bases on balls (all National League records that still stand). He batted over .300 in eleven seasons, led the league in homers six times, wound up with a lifetime average of .304. Giant fans called Mel Ott "the Little Giant," watched fondly as he took his straight-up, lefthanded stance, kicked his right foot...
...author went to those who had known him-both "the indulgent sentimentalists, who melt as they tell of the handsome and elegant young man, so lordly, so cultivated and so exquisitely kind-hearted," and "the intolerant, for whom the artist does not excuse the unbearable buffoon, who could neither stand alcohol nor keep away from it, the weak author of his own downfall, the boring, drunken spoil-sport...