Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singapore, Threat. The British made the Japs sweep Singapore's streets, just as the Japs had done to British prisoners in 1942. The point was not childish retribution, but restoration of British "face" with the natives...
Nine Notches. From then on, there was great respect for Elfego and his triggerfinger in New Mexico. He killed five more men at various times-all, he said, in self-defense. The threat of a gun duel with Baca was usually enough to calm any New Mexican desperado. As the country quieted, Elfego studied law, became county clerk, district attorney, school superintendent, mayor of Socorro. As a prosecutor, he sent many murderers to their deaths. As a defense attorney, he won acquittal for 19 out of 20 clients charged with murder. One story (probably apocryphal): a client wired him from...
Fuel. Army releases end the threat of a real crisis, but the Solid Fuels Administration reports the shortage may continue to some extent. Fuel oil should be no problem, unless transport makes...
Detroit's Tiger-hold on the American League was slipping. The Senators, with their four knuckle-ball pitching wonders, were up close. The White Sox, with something not apparent to the naked eye, were a third-place threat. And now Cleveland's amazing Indians jumped from seventh to fourth (winning 19 out of their last 28 games). The season had five weeks to go, and it looked like another dogfight to the finish...
Stars & Averages. When Bill ("Swish") Nicholson, last year's home run and R.B.I. champion, began swishing air almost exclusively this year, Jolly Cholly left him strictly alone. Nicholson still has plenty of threat value, and four other Cubs-Hack, Johnson, Cavarretta, Pafko-have better than .300 averages. (Cavarretta's .363 mates him the present runner-up to Boston's Tommy Holmes for batting honors...