Word: acker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolfgang in the Austrian Alps. Reports that he might come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...
Leopold III, King of the Belgians, suddenly recovered his health. From Salzburg he sent word that he was coming home. Since Socialist Premier Achille Van Acker's Government had virtually barred the sovereign's return (TIME, May 21), Leopold's decision plunged the nation into a constitutional crisis...
...piece and said, "My name's Gorham."...the sheepish grin on James Gwin Zea's face when a bunch of the boys referred to him as "the flag," and stood up as he sat down to chow at their tuble ONE day...the crackling sound of Bill Acker's voice after a particularly long session of "hip-toop-threep-fourping"...the blood-in-the-eye look of the tall, grizzled E. O. Homan when he thinks his leg has been pulled a little too hard....remember...
HARVARD YALE Loring, lw rw, Burgwin Acker, c c, Guernsey W. Harding, rw lw, Tlighman Mechem, ld rd, Harman Taylor, rd ld, Meyer G. Harding, g g, Swift...
Coach John Chase still rates the Loring-Acker-W. Harding line as his top combination, but that's no indication that it will be in at the opening face-off, since Dick Harding, Albie Everts, and Johnny Burton, who head the scoring lists, got the nod last Saturday and may start off again...