Word: warmup
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...three runs were in when Captain Warren "Moe" Berg took the mound with very little warmup, and the Boston club kept right on going. A double play (Harvard had three all told) got Berg out of that jam at the cost of only one more run, but the Coast Guard came back with four more tallies in the eighth, aided by very sloppy Crimson play...
Curwen took only a little time to round into form. With an afternoon's warmup in the waist of the Jayvees, he moved up to the Varsity, and then, in the shakeup, to the Jayvees, which later became the Varsity...
...artillery was silent. In the woods the pilots climbed into their seats, fastened their helmets and parachute straps. The engines in the P-4Os belched, coughed, broke into cavernous mumbles. Down the concealed alleyways through the trees the lean airplanes teetered to the airdrome. They bellowed briefly for the warmup...
Army radio men jumped. Down from the sky near Phoenix, Ariz, came a shrill drizzle of unmistakably Oriental jabber. They flashed an alert to nearby airfields. Out rolled patrol and scout planes, to snort and roar on the line in a hurried warmup. Suddenly somebody remembered that Chinese flyers were training in the area (TIME, Nov. 17). That was it, all right. Two of them, having a plane-to-plane chat by radio, had found piloting and talking English too tough, had relapsed into their native Chinese...
...previous weekend, as a kind of warmup, there had been a turbulent election in San Juan Province, where two men had been killed and 84 ballot boxes destroyed. With charges and countercharges of fraud, no results, have yet been published...