Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, the offense displayed fine form, as its 11 hits took good advantage of a like number of bases on balls and assorted passed balls and wild pitches. Captain John Simourian reached base safely five times, on two singles, a double, and two walks, and Matt Bots-ford and Bob Hastings each drove in three runs...
Tech pitcher Frank Henrick was wild in the next frame, and the Crimson scored four runs on one hit to take an 8 to 3 lead. Simourian and Hastings walked and Botsford singled Simourian home. Botsford went to second on a passed ball, and then John Getch walked. A wild pitch scored Hastings. After Walt Stahura flied out, Phil Haughey, who hit the ball hard all day, brought both Botsford and Getch home with a deep sacrifice fly to left...
...priesthood. He won the judgment; the Court of Arches ordered Cornelia to leave the convent and return to her husband or go to jail. For weeks Cornelia kept street clothes in her cell, ready to leave the country if Pierce or the authorities should try to seize her. Wild rumors had it that Pierce was waiting in a yacht off the coast, ready to carry her off. Ready for Glory. Cornelia eventually won her appeal to the Privy Council, but not before Connelly v. Connelly became the focus of a violent newspaper battle between British Protestants and Catholics, with...
...command the battalion-Jock or this Barrow boy? Jock is handicapped not only by a mistress but a prim Presbyterian daughter named Morag who is in love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen-and the almost equally extinct...
...people," said the announcer. The bleeeeep was Arthur Godfrey amid the flora and fauna of French Equatorial Africa, where he was stalking wild game and piping an occasional short-wave transmission into 4,000,000 American homes. Before he left the U.S., Godfrey got FCC and French government authority to make his broadcasts, and rival RCA assigned him four of its commercial frequencies. ("A helluva favor," said Godfrey. "Fine thing for good will, too.") This week Godfrey was flying home with a big surprise for "the people": a bristling red mustache and beard...