Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freak pitch known as a fork ball (a slow ball that sinks and sometimes breaks away). Oldtimers say Bonham's fork ball can't compare with the one Bullet Joe Bush used to throw for the Athletics and Yankees. Still, used as a change-of-pace ball, Tiny's forker has fooled plenty of batters...
Marching at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
...Radio Reader (CBS, Monday through Friday, 9:15-9:30 a.m. E.W.T.), another bookish experiment. Invitation to Learning's sensible Mark Van Doren (TIME, Nov. 24) started the program by reading The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which offered housewives a change of pace from other sin-and-suffer programs, gave bedfast patients in hospitals something worth listening to. Van Doren makes no attempt at Dramatic emphasis but reads articulately and quietly. He opens with a summary of the dramatic situation, reads 14 minutes (without skipping), stops when his time runs out. If listeners like the program (first...
...Pace, W. A.; Parrott, L. M., Jr.; Peabody, J. G.; Peterkin, J. E.; Pettingell, W. H.; Pierce, J. B., Jr.; Pink, J. W., Jr.; Purdy, E. R. Pyle...
Stroked by Gene Wulsin, the Merrimen jumped the Bulls at the very start, and, choosing their own pace, fought their way down the harbor, finishing in 7:07, which experts say is very good time for the nautical mile, which never seems to be raced anywhere outside of New Haven Harbor...