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...fire. He has a system: "Any time I'm in a hole, I got confidence in that fast ball." He doesn't trust curves, he says, because lots of times curves just hang, and when they hang you're sunk. With help from his Boston Braves, he won, 7 to 6. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Braves were in trouble again. Big Bill went to the rescue, and was credited with...
Dunkirk harbor was a shambles of "twisted steel and broken concrete . . . battered quays . . . flaring oil tanks . . . a long channel already littered with ships burning, ships sunk, ships stranded." Shells poured in from long-range German artillery, bombs fell constantly, German E-boats dashed in from nearby waters and added disruption to confusion. The 39 British destroyers (which took off 103,399 soldiers) threw open their precious watertight doors to make more room, served simultaneously as carriers, leaders, patrollers, defenders against aircraft-and hazards to smaller craft. Turning and twisting at high speed to avoid bombs, their roaring wash flooded...
...dictators: Nicaragua's Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and Honduras' Dictator Tiburcio Carías. The battle-hardened exiles in Costa Rica had formed a "junta for the liberation of the Caribbean." Said bald old Dominican Juan Rodriguez Garcia, who had sunk $400,000 in last summer's abortive plot against Trujillo: "The free people of the Caribbean are uniting against despots. The liberation of the Caribbean is our object...
...took a hole-in-one by Line Kinnicutt and a four-foot putt on the eighteenth hole by Sam Seager to put the wraps on a 28-game winning streak that Princeton boasted up to last Friday. Coach Barclay's golf team sunk both to win their first game in the sectional playoffs for Northeastern Amateur Championships...
...Owned the Sow? The feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys is surely one of the great U.S. folk stories. It has sunk into the popular mind with Li'l Abner connotations, a confused impression of moonshiners, hillbillies, revenue officers, and verbs with "a" in front of them ("I don't feel like runnin', I'm a-goin' t'fight"). Actually, the Hatfield-McCoy feud was a tragedy, violent and unrelenting, with its characters, doomed and possessed, living their parts with fixed intensity...