Word: fielding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What had she said, and what had Mr. Hiss said? "I said to him, 'I understand you are trying to get Noel Field away from my organization and into yours.' He said to me, 'So you're the famous girl who is trying to get Noel Field away from me?' Then he said, 'Well, we'll see who is going to win.' I said to him, 'Well, Mr. Hiss, I hope you realize you are competing with a woman.' Then one of us, I don't remember whether...
...superior court reversed a law which allowed but one well to the acre, and oil derricks began to rise on Yant's old subdivision like quills on a porcupine's back. In less than a week, 44 drilling rigs were trucked up the single road to the field; 10,000 men labored feverishly at the task of tapping the common oil pool below...
...Cleveland this week the two top teams of the All-America Conference met for the league's last game. On a muddy, slippery field the Cleveland Browns defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 21 to 7, to win the league championship for the fourth year...
...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., several thousand children gathered at Stranahan Field to see Santa parachute from a plane hired by the Chamber of Commerce. As he floated down, the children screamed in terror; a gust of wind wafted Santa onto some power lines nearby (see cut). Unhurt, Santa was helped down, and began passing out candy...
...Chicago, the Santa of the merchants' State Street Council was paraded on a float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking his fist, he moaned: "There's a dead spot in my popularity-I just found...