Word: balled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bucharest pressing Rumania for more oil-and reinforcing his arguments with showings of hair-raising motion pictures of the German conquest of Poland. In the face of this pressure and of the danger that his country might be partitioned among Russia, Germany and Hungary if he refused to play ball, King Carol showed guts. He expelled a British Reuters correspondent who filed a story that Germany had delivered an ultimatum to Rumania, announced that a Rumanian trade delegation would go to London this month. Air-raid drills were instituted in all parts of the country. But the King was nervous...
...Bonnet, Minister of Justice in the outgoing Cabinet (Minister of Foreign Affairs in the days of "Munich"), was left out of the new Cabinet altogether. The Air Ministry, previously held by Radical Socialist Guy La Chambre, went to Left Democrat Laurent Eynac who has held this job before-no ball of fire...
...football with a ridged surface to give forward-passers and other ball-handlers a better grip...
...840th victory since the team was organized 13 years ago. Traveling by bus, they cover 35,000 miles a year, attract 350,000 spectators. In all games their technique is the same: to try to get eight or ten points ahead of their opponents, and then exhibit their fancy ball handling, such as spinning the ball on fingertips, flipping it between legs, rolling it up one arm and down the other. Star stunt man is 37-year-old Inman Jackson, a 6 ft. 3 in. 200-pounder, who serves as the only substitute on the team, gets $300 a month...
Bethel Merriday is a distinctly better book, and its comparative goodness may be instructive to historians of Sinclair Lewis' career. With a talent that has more hop on the ball than nine or ten ordinary writers, Lewis wrote his memorable novels not when he had a "good idea" but when parts of the U. S. social scene stirred him to sardonic, passionate-and first-hand-study. Arrowsmith is a classic example, and it is with Arrowsmith that Bethel Merriday may be fairly compared...