Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Cornell's ground attack, according to Jordan, is right halfback Frank Miller. The Big Red's leading ground-gainer in 1948, Miller was considered to have been off form last season...
...Proving Ground...
Festooned with colored lights and filled with little tables & chairs, the ordinarily bare parade ground of Port-au-Prince's broad Champs-de-Mars wore the air of a fête champêtre. While bands blared meringues through the soft tropical night, 15,000 happy Haitians downed free rice, beans, griots (fried pork), and heady island rum. Nearby cinemas and bars offered free movies and more free drinks. From time to time loudspeakers broadcast polite speeches by politicians suggesting that the picnickers might vote for Colonel Paul Magloire for President...
...third-place Brooklyn Dodgers. Then things began to happen. Bereft of star Southpaw Curt Simmons, who had been called up by the National Guard (TIME, Aug. 7), the Phillie pitching staff fell apart at the seams. At the same moment, the hitters stopped hitting, and the infielders began booting ground balls. The Phillies lost eight of their next eleven games...
...suave old former Secretary of State has a much younger wife who seeks her freedom-to marry (as he learns without her telling him) a Senator her own age. The Secretary's bland if not too convincing strategy is to make the Senator lose ground politically by being a bachelor, and then hurry him into a marriage-in-name-only with a seemingly plain and simple schoolteacher. In a trice, of course, the bride grows wildly attractive and wonderfully astute. This state of affairs, even when christened Affairs of State, can have but one outcome...