Word: controller
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...whack some of the pork and patronage out of bureau payrolls, road projects, and reclamation dam plans in its huge ($32.5 billion) omnibus appropriation bill. Illinois' Douglas took his defeats philosophically. At one point when William Langer, standing next to him, was self-righteously arguing for flood control in his state of North Dakota, pumping out his reasons with his right arm, Douglas reached out and grasped Langer's hand and whimsically pumped along with...
...Confucius. Sometimes Ho recites verse. Sometimes he cracks a joke. I remember once-in Annamite we use the same word for 'cholera' as for 'left'-we had an outbreak of cholera, and he told the minister of health: 'You had better get this under control or people will think we are favoring the left...
...After serving as a U-boat commander in World War I, he became a popular Lutheran minister at Berlin's fashionable Jesus Christus Kirche. The Nazis found him cooperative at first, but by 1937 he was arrested for his stubborn refusal to knuckle under to their church-control regulations. He was kept in concentration camp for eight years...
...Control in Philadelphia. Now that Ted Williams may be lost to them for the season (see above), the Boston Red Sox are more than ever grateful to have rookie First Baseman Walter Dropo. Another giant (6 ft. 5 in., 220 Ibs.), Dropo got his big chance early this season when Regular Billy Goodman was sidelined with an injury. Dropo was hurriedly called up from Louisville and plunked on first base, and no one has been able to budge the big man since then. His 22 home runs, his .351 batting average and his 90 runs driven in put him right...
...National League, Philadelphia fans are throwing their caps in the air over 24-year-old Pitcher Bob Miller. Also a big fellow (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.), stoop-shouldered Miller has a quality that is rare in young pitchers: control. This week he lost his first game, after winning eight, has one of the lowest earned-run averages in the league.* Whenever Miller misses the plate twice in a row, says Phillies Manager Eddie Sawyer, he asks for a new ball. "He figures it must be the ball's fault." Miller has made the jump from Class...