Word: paste
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days a week, Mrs. Mclsaac is much like any other small-town matron. But for three hours every Friday evening, for the past ten years, she has suffered ecstatic agonies. She bears the stigmata-wounds corresponding to those of the crucified Christ...
...York Giant baseball fans are a faithful lot whose loyalty has been stretched pretty thin for the past twelve years. While the Giants floundered around in the lower depths of the National League, the Giant fan has had to live on memories of Manager John McGraw's fighting teams and of such great pitchers as Christy Mathewson, Fred Fitzsimmons and Carl Hubbell...
Rookie Outfielder Gus Bell was the first Pirate to bat in the seventh. Maglie got two fast strikes past him, then fed him a low inside curve, "a pitch I had been getting Bell out with before." Bell fell away from the ball, swinging as he stepped back. He struck it on a looping arc toward the right-field foul pole, 257 ft. away. The ball landed low and inches fair for a home run, the shortest (by 40 ft.) possible homer in any National League park. Though Maglie lost his chance at Hubbell's record, by an inning...
...full time when she finished Columbia in 1942. She was sent to the London bureau in 1944, got to Germany in time to cover the closing battles of World War II. At the Dachau concentration camp, while some correspondents dodged SS bullets, she and another correspondent jeeped blithely past and were the first reporters inside the central enclosure (an SS officer tried to surrender...
...last week wiped out the last of its losses caused by the Korean war-and then some. In the closing session of the week, the landing at Inchon pushed it still higher in a fever of trading that reached 820,000 shares in the last hour. Trading had soared past 2,000,000 shares for three successive days, and boosted the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks by 5.04 points...