Word: briefed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knocked out in the midst of this rally, which was built around four singles, a walk, and a balk. The last of these misfortunes was charged against Cook's reliever, Dave Kipp; and it provoked some minor objections from coach Norman Shepard. Strolling back to the dugout after a brief conference with the umpires, Shepard received the razz from a group of Naval officers sitting in the stands nearby. "We rely on you for our security," Shepard retorted before taking a seat. This apparently stopped the jeering, but the Navy players proceeded to make things increasingly insecure for the Crimson...
...brief turn at writing in Washington soon ended when in the spring of the following year he set out to the Solomons, where he formed a friendship with Admiral Nimitz. Establishing headquarters in Hawaii, he spent the summer canvassing the combat area of the South Pacific. He survived the Japanese air attack on Guadalcanal and saw even more action on the night of July 12, when his ship engaged in a skirmish as it crossed the "slot" between Guadalcanal and Bougainville. A brief review of Atlantic waters notwithstanding, he stayed in the South Pacific until the end of the year...
...primary responsibilities, he says, "related to the placing of agents behind the enemy lines, first in northern Italy and Austria and (later) in Western Germany." Although he himself did not enter enemy territory, it was his job to select men for the job and to brief them, "to prepare them for what they should learn and how they should protect themselves," he recalls. He would then arrange for communications...
Young & Eager. For Horace Stoneham's Giants are young, eager and bursting with base hits. Last year they scored more runs (727) than any other team in the National League, led the league for brief periods until early August, when the inadequate pitching staff finally folded completely. Explains Manager Bill Rigney: "We had to borrow tomorrow's pitching today, and it finally caught up with us." The Giants finished third, behind Milwaukee and Pittsburgh...
...positive prayer" should be addressed. For eight days, prayer for growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow no more . . . and it grew no more. The top of it darkened and withered and it remained in the stunted, non-growing condition. No more seedlings appeared on the negated side, though we held the experiment open for 20 days...