Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that rally by thoughtlessly trying to steal home. Apoplectic over this final foolishness, Manager Fred Haney fined Bobby $100. Apparently he did not think it worth while to beef that Bobby was probably safe in spite of himself. Dodger Catcher Campanella had jumped a good yard out of the catcher's box before Pitcher Roger Craig got rid of the ball. When they bothered to look, the Braves discovered that they had won 8-7, had taken back their one-game lead...
Britain's reigning crime sensation, touted by Picture Post as "Scotland Yard's biggest investigation of the century," has been making headlines for a month: YARD PROBES DEATHS OF 300 RICH WOMEN; YARD PROBES MASS POISONING. Papers reported plans to exhume bodies, test cemetery soil, investigate wills and drug sales. But despite a spate of stories about the Case of the Eastbourne Deaths, many a reader stumbled bewildered through such a maze of hints, irrelevancies and non sequiturs that it was hard to figure out what the uproar was all about. Reason: the tough British laws of libel...
...complained that they left him too much money when they died. The police received notes, sometimes anonymous, even suggesting-without any facts-that he had hastened their deaths. They ordered an inquest on one of the patients (verdict: suicide) and, as the buzz of gossip rose, called in Scotland Yard...
...their favorite campaign target, Vice President Nixon, by inviting a sudden-death competition in their own ranks. Immediately after the convention nominated him, Stevenson went to a two-room suite (decorated with prints of American birds, e.g., the black-billed cuckoo and the boat-tailed grackle) in the Stock Yard Inn, next to the convention amphitheater, to talk over his decision with Democratic leaders...
...that point Kennedy stood with 648 votes−just 38½ short of nomination. Over at the Stock Yard Inn, Kennedy, lolling in a private room in his shorts, began dressing to make his triumphal convention appearance. But before he could get there, the Tennessee switch had changed the chemistry of the balloting. Kennedy's vote hung. Kefauver's began to surge. Oklahoma switched from Gore to Kefauver; Minnesota, which had been split between Kefauver and Humphrey, swung solidly behind Estes. Kennedy and Kefauver strained to go over the top, as, in a situation of total confusion, half...