Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the fatal runs came after two were out in the first half of the second when three successive singles provided the winning margin. The only other scoring came in the eighth on a combination of a walk, an error, a ground-out and double play...
...starved as the corpses in the crematorium yard. You cannot adequately describe starved men; they just look awful and unnatural. There was nothing but their bones beneath the tightly stretched skin, none of the roundedness, the curving and the flat places, the swelling muscles which men usually have. They walk or creep or lie around and seem about as animate as the barracks and fence posts and the stones on Buchenwald's bare, hard-packed earth, and when they are dead they are corpses and then gone...
...other hand, Mel Ott, whose Giants banged their way into the National League lead, was feeling no pain. Every time he hit a home run, drove in a run (three so far), drew a walk (eleven in seven games), or did most anything, he broke his own league record. The Yankees' five-game spurt which made them the team to beat in the American League-despite the Chicago White Sox's five straight wins-did not even raise a smile on Joe McCarthy's square jaw. Said poker-faced Joe: "My team's better than last...
...feet from gangrene acquired by squatting for hours on the cold prison floor. Surgeons first tried tiny grafts of skin, later had to resort to large pieces of flesh from Powell's thigh. Since January, wearing two shoes on each foot (cost $212), Powell has been learning to walk with canes...
Even the Tributary Theatre's capable production, however, cannot escape the inexperienced troupe's inevitable handicap of poor playing in the walk-on parts and even in several of the principals. Guards and messengers border on the amateurish, and Helen Stone's portrayal of Queen Gertrude adds nothing to the play but disappointment. A badly-spoken Rosencrantz also serves to brand the performance as experimental and Bostonian...