Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence in his curve through the efforts of Geraghty and Wichita Pitching Coach Ted Wilks. Righthander Willey was made to throw curves in tight situations. His catcher would insist on the curve, even after Willey shook off the signal. Result: 27-year-old Willey developed the sharp-breaking stuff he needed to become a starter. He went up to the Braves in June, has pitched three shutouts, won eight, lost three. Last week he whipped Philadelphia twice. 14-3 and io. Willey's ERA: a sparkling...
...reporting, The Road to Wigan Pier is unmatched in the set pieces of industrial sociology. In the black country, Orwell first took lodgings above a shop that sold nothing much but "black tripe" (the "grey flocculent stuff" and the "ghostly translucent feet of pigs" were kept in a beetle-infested cellar). To get his story, he wandered in and around Wigan (population then a little under 87,000), and the account of these wanderings still makes the reader feel that he has been dragged heels first through a municipal garbage dump. Orwell lived in rooms that smelled "like a ferret...
...today would find odd. For instance, he was convinced that British bellies were largely fed on the loot of Empire; it has not turned out that way. But Orwell's polemics against bearded, fruit-juice-drinking pacifists, cranks, snobs, snob-bolsheviks, cowards in the socialist movement is devastating stuff, and this lends sharp irony to the book today. With great acumen the present publishers have reprinted Victor Gollancz's original foreword, in which the socialist publisher apologizes for the heretical opinions of his socialist writer. Says Gollancz in shocked tones: "He even commits the curious indiscretion of referring...
After the war, old "Pop" turned his hand to the Civil Air Transport, a Chinese commercial line that is healthy and profitable still. This, too, was tame stuff for an incandescent spirit. He took a second wife, a Chinese girl, and she bore him two children to add to the eight he had by his first. But what he needed was another uphill fight to win, and there was none around. Aimless, restless, unhappy, the hooded falcon began to wane. "Pop's face," an old China hand said, "looks like it's worn out three bodies already...
...near Healdsburg, 60 miles north of San Francisco, where hot springs and fumaroles abound. President Barkman C. McCabe of Magma Power thinks that a crack in the earth's crust allowed magma from the earth's hot interior to rise fairly near the surface. Magma is uneasy stuff, an intensely hot solution of steam and other gases in melted rock. When it bursts out in large quantities, it builds a volcano. When it does not quite break loose, it creates a geothermal area like the place near Healdsburg...