Word: 24th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saluted continued Czecho-Slovak defiance of the Nazis in a cable to exiled President Eduard Benes (in London) on the 24th anniversary of Czech independence...
...twine. The three men trolled with it, caught fish, which they ate raw. The fish guts they threw into the water lured hungry sharks which, Wajda said, "slapped the raft with their tails and we were afraid it would overturn." Benton began to grow weak. "On the 24th day he died and we put him overboard, mumbling what prayers we could remember. . . . Then Bancroft started to go out of his mind. ... He tried to jump. . . . I grabbed him . . . and we rolled around. . . . The raft lurched and he went over. I was too weak to try to save...
This tribute was high on the list of 37 slogans distributed by Tass. Soviet news agency, to commemorate the Red Army's 24th anniversary (TIME, March 2). Last week came proof that the tribute was more than earned. In a maneuver encircling the Sixteenth German Army at Staraya Russa, 140 miles south of still-besieged Leningrad, Soviet troops were guided by a guerrilla named Ivan Grozny, who is known as "Ivan the Terrible." Guerrilla Grozny and his guerrillas cut communications, uprooted German mine fields, finally marched 25 miles through bitter cold and deep snow to help encircle the Germans...
...Ames, who last week was disqualified from the downhill races at Stowe, garnered a third place in the downhill race, and the next Crimson finisher was Bungy King, in 20th place. Yardling Duncan Reed crossed the line in 24th place, and Captain Finn Ferner followed him, placing 27th...
...Ames made ninth place in the slalom yesterday, but with Capt. Finn Former he was disqualified in the downhill and did not get into the final rating. Tom Winship combined a ninth on Saturday with a 24th in the slalom to cop 11th place in the meet...