Word: suites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day the Yankees' pitching turned sour against the Senators, wasting nine good hits (including two home runs by Hank Bauer) and an early lead to lose 10-5. Chicago followed suit, succumbed to the hungry Cleveland Indians, whom they had walloped 8-1 the day before. With two homers by Centerfielder Larry Doby and Early Wynn's six-hit pitching, the 6-1 victory pulled Cleveland back up to a second-place tie with the Yankees, left Chicago still in front by half a game...
...years;* he was getting as much as $16,000 a broadcast, and the American Broadcasting Co. had given him a lifetime contract, guaranteeing him a minimum of $1,000 a week, whether he broadcast or not. ABC also insured Gossipist Winchell for $1,000,000 against libel suits; even if he lost a suit, he would not have...
There was not a baggy suit among the lot of them, or a frown, when twelve visiting Russian farm officials showed up at the Department of Agriculture last week for an appointment with Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Bald and effusive, Russia's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Vladimir Matskevich presented Benson with a couple of souvenir lacquered boxes, one of them showing a family of bears gamboling happily in a forest. Benson asked how to say "thank you" in Russian, said "spasibo," and handed Matskevich a 4-H Club tie-clip, a photograph of the Benson family and a book...
...settlers filled up the West, they adapted their breeds, e.g., the cowboy's quarter-horse, the gentleman farmer's Tennessee walking horse, the American saddle horse, to suit the jobs at hand. The famed Pony Express brought 500 top-quality horses, ranging from three-quarter English thoroughbreds to golden California palomino mustangs, to supply relays for the rugged 2,000-mile route from St. Joseph, Mo., over the Rockies and west to Sacramento. Calif...
Author Wouk builds up real suspense about the question of whom Marjorie will finally marry-a reformed Noel, a romantic Eden, a successful Wally, or plain Dr. Shapiro. The last chapter finds her a contented matron of Mamaroneck, who in her memory has revamped the past to suit the present. As she gets a little high and waltzes alone to the strains of Falling in Love with Love, she seems for a moment like the dream girl of old. But the moment passes. An old beau who is visiting her decides: "You couldn't write a play about...