Word: tying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parnell throw a curve ball past Birdie Tebbetts and the Red Sox into tie with the Yankees, as Ray Scarborgh and the Senators won the ball game, 2 to 1, in Washington last night...
Seven other amendments were voted down. One offered by Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy to put quotas on Russian furs was defeated only after a tie vote was broken by Alben Barkley, exercising the Vice President's prerogative for the first time. Then the Senate approved the bill itself, extending the reciprocal trade program for two years by a thumping 62 votes...
...made him the conference star. He presided over his own delegation briskly and competently, telling them: "Gentlemen, we must now decide just what is our official position so that when we depart from it we will know what we are departing from." The professor was learning fast how to tie fancy knots in his diplomatic ropes...
...Boston Red Sox worked into a tie with the Yankees for the American League leadership yesterday by beating New York 4 to 1. Mel Parnell pitched his twenty-fifth victory, beating Allie Reynolds, and Ted Williams hit his forty-third home run of the season...
...anything, no wish to preach and no advice to offer. I just want to talk to people about things that interest me and that I hope will interest them." His sponsor, Lee Hats, decided on Montgomery (reportedly at $5,000 per week) when Lee ended its 3½-year tie-up with Gossipist Drew Pearson. Asked his opinion of his predecessor, Montgomery replied with a brisk "No comment." But he admitted that "I'm not going to use a crystal ball on this program...