Word: ace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going into the 500, Army led by a score of 40 to 30. Since a final relay victory would be useless without five points in the freestyle, Coach Bill Brooks put sprint ace Bill Shrout and strongman Neville Hayes in the race...
...kill cops, rob banks, blow up pipelines and make sporadic attacks on backland towns. The guerrillas now have about 600 men under arms. So far they have failed to win much support from Venezuela's peasants, who form the backbone of President Leoni's reform-minded Ace ion Democrdtica party. Yet some 5,000 government troops have rarely been able to kill or capture more than one or two of the elusive guerrillas at a time, and their continuing presence unsettles the entire country...
...Nanny is a small sedate British thriller, based on the assumption that one good squirm deserves another. Having mopped up in three earlier blood-letters, moviedom's Ace Bogeywoman Bette Davis now goes about her grisliness with quiet, unruffled efficiency. The Nanny is her definitive essay on the servant problem, and may be taken as an antidote by those who found Mary Poppins too sweet to stomach...
...depart from the Communist island free and clear after Oct. 10, and 2) make a statement "in a few days" that would clear up the mysterious seven-month disappearance of Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 37, the Argentine-born Marxist who ranks as Cuba's top theoretician, ace guerrilla fighter and longtime No. 2 to Castro himself...
...first. James Augustine Healy, bishop of Portland, Me., from 1875 to 1900, was the son of a white Georgia planter and a mulatto slave, once joked about his color by suggesting that a small girl who called him "black as the devil" should rephrase it "black as the ace of spades...