Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wildly cheered by flag-waving crowds, a lean, leathery man in an olive-green army uniform rode triumphantly into Buenos Aires one sunny day last week to take over as President of Argentina. The new headman was General Eduardo Lonardi (see box), leader of the rebellion that brought Juan Perón tumbling down...
Anarchic Grammar. The work has been trying. At 65, Casey's temper has become frayed. He began the year by drop-kicking a press photographer out of spring training; during the regular season, he raged at the umpires more than usual, erupted from the dugout in a uniform that looked like well-worn pajamas, and even got himself heaved out of a game-something of a record for Stengel as a Yankee manager...
Brooklyn fans, who had learned to love him, cheerfully razzed him the first time he turned up at Ebbets Field in an enemy uniform. Casey understood, but he saw a chance to get even. Out in the field in the first inning, he watched a Dodger in the bullpen catch a sparrow. He borrowed the stunned bird and slipped it under...
...time he had mounted the program's cash "plateaus" by identifying flour in five breads for $16,000, five desserts for $32,000 (taxcut to $20,090), found himself with the option of going all the way. Getting ready for his final appearance last week, he took his uniform to be cleaned. Pleaded the tailor: "Let me take it to my synagogue tonight and I'll pray over it." Dick went back to boning up on Volume 23 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (vegetables, vitamins, wines), The Wise Encyclopedia of Cookery and Simon's A Concise Encyclopaedia...
...Kirkland House and Hemstead, N.Y., succeeds Bill Cleary as captain of the 1956 baseball team. Rossano was elected over the summer by the mail vote of the lettermen after Cleary, who had been elected captain following the final Yale game in June, left for army service. While in uniform Cleary--the nation's leading college hockey scorer last season--will be eligible to play for the United States Olympic Hockey Team...