During the off-season the club hired Leigh Matthews, who in 1990 had delivered Collingwood its first premiership since 1958.

During the off-season, the team signed Japanese shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka to fill a hole in the middle infield, re-signed Jim Thome, who was in pursuit of career home run number 600, and also re-signed Carl Pavano.

During the off-season, the Brewers lost C. C.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

During the off-season, Clemente was involved in charity work.

During the off-season, in a mysterious accident, owner Carroll Rosenbloom drowned, and a power struggle ensued between Carroll's second wife, Georgia Frontiere, and his son, Steve Rosenbloom.

During the off-season, improvements were made to Turnpike Stadium, which reopened as Arlington Stadium for the 1972 season.

During the off-season while playing for the Reds in the late 1950s, he attended Xavier University in Cincinnati.

During the off-season, though still active in baseball, Jackson worked as a field reporter and color commentator for ABC Sports.

During the off-season, the Bulls drafted Jimmy Butler 30th overall in the 2011 NBA draft.

During the 1996 off-season, the Lakers acquired 17-year-old Kobe Bryant from the Charlotte Hornets for Vlade Divac ; Bryant was drafted 13th overall out of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania in that years draft, by Charlotte.

During the 2006 off-season many Oilers left the team.

During the 2011 off-season, the team again made several moves to bolster the offence and defence, trading for fan favourite Ryan Smyth from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for centre Colin Fraser and a 7th round draft pick.

During the off-season Burke bought out the remaining year on Bertuzzi's contract and traded Schneider to the Atlanta Thrashers.

During the 2007 – 08 off-season, the Connecticut Sun made major changes to their roster in an effort to win that ever-elusive championship title.

During the off-season, Capozzi improved the team for the 1959 season in the following ways ; first by hiring Wayne Robinson from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to become the new head coach, then bringing in a corps of veteran players to add more experience to the team.

During the off-season, Kariya became a restricted free agent before re-signing with the Ducks to a one-year, $ 10 million contract in July 2002.

During the off-season, Predators owner Craig Leipold put the team up for sale ; two of the leading candidates to buy the franchise both had plans to relocate the team.

During the 2005 off-season, after Nomar Garciaparra left the Cubs via free agency, Prior was mentioned as part of a possible deal for Baltimore Orioles's shortstop Miguel Tejada, but this trade did not come to pass.

During the off-season of 2012, Brodeur hired agent Pat Brisson, leading many to believe he would test free-agency.

During the off-season, he took courses at Assumption University in Windsor, Ontario.

During the WNBA's off-season, she began working as a stockbroker in New York City.

During the off-season, the team competes in various exhibition games and tournaments against college teams in Ontario, and sometimes teams from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

During the 2010 off-season, citing irreconcilable differences with Oiler management due to their handling of his various ailments, Souray requested a trade out of Edmonton.

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

During this time, the 1954 elections were held which saw the complete defeat of Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin by the nexus of Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Party allying with the Awami League.

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

" During Kurtzman's final two-plus years at EC, Mad appeared erratically ( ten issues appeared in 1954, followed by eight issues in 1955 and four issues in 1956 ).

During the Vietnam War the battles of Dien Bien Phu ( 1954 ) and Khe Sanh ( 1968 ) possessed siege-like characteristics.

During his wartime service, as noted later in the January 11, 1954 Time magazine issue that featured him on its cover:

During the period of McCarthyism ( 1950 – 1954 ), Humphrey was accused of being " soft on Communism ", despite having been one of the founders of the anti-communist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere.

During 1954 – 55 he was president of the Reserve Officers Association.

) During the 1950s, Le Pen took a close interest in the Algerian war ( 1954 – 62 ) and the French defense budget.

During the first 42 years of tobacco litigation ( between 1954 and 1996 ) the industry maintained a clean record in litigation thanks to tactics described in a R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company internal memo as " the way we won these cases, to paraphrase Gen. Patton, is not by spending all of Reynolds ' money, but by making the other son of a bitch spend all of his.

During the 1954 shooting of their film Dial M for Murder Milland and his co-star, Grace Kelly, were reported to have had an affair which almost destroyed both their careers.

During the colonization of ' Tonkin ' ( north Vietnam ) between 1883 and 1954, a number of Hmong decided to join the Vietnamese Nationalists and Communists, while many Christianized Hmong sided with the French.

During this time she began acting for CBS ' popular Lux Radio Theater, making 22 appearances between 1935 and 1954.

During the Daily Mail Snowman Expedition of 1954, the mountaineering leader John Angelo Jackson made the first trek from Everest to Kanchenjunga in the course of which he photographed symbolic paintings of the Yeti at Tengboche gompa.

During the Fifth Republic, founded in 1958 amid the troubles brought by the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ), France was ruled by successive right-wing administrations until 1981.

During the 1950 ′ s, Pinewood gave birth to the huge financial successes of the Carry On ... and Doctor films series, produced on behalf of Rank by Peter Rogers and his wife Betty E. Box and directed by the brothers Gerald Thomas and Ralph Thomas respectively ( Doctor in the House was the most popular box office film of 1954 in Great Britain ) and the Norman Wisdom comedies, which between 1953 and 1966 initially made more money than the James Bond film series.

During 1954 he served as Vice-Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

During the Algerian War ( 1954 – 62 ), the agency created the Organization of the French Algerian Resistance ( ORAF ), a group of counter-terrorists whose mission was to carry out false flag terrorist attacks with the aim of quashing any hopes of political compromise.

During the debutante season of 1954, she was presented to the Queen.

During July 1954, Perkins and his wife heard a new release of " Blue Moon of Kentucky " by Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black on the radio., and Valda told Carl that someone in Memphis understood what he was doing and he should go see him.

Moosup's claim to fame is that it is the boyhood hometown of Walt Dropo, During a 13-year career in Major League Baseball, he played for the Boston Red Sox ( 1949 – 1952 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1952 – 1954 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1955 – 1958 ), Cincinnati Redlegs ( 1958 – 1959 ) and Baltimore Orioles ( 1959-1961 ).

During the height of the Cold War, in 1954, the U. S. Army installed an Ajax-Nike missile base at the airfield which was functional until it was decommissioned in 1963.

During the French Indochina War ( 1945 – 1954 ), French forces attempted to re-establish colonial control of Vietnam, while nationalist forces led by Ho Chi Minh fought for independence.