Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Competing against Penn's Ernest Tracy and Roy Rissinger, two of the East's better runners, the varsity rose to the occasion and whipped the Quakers, 23 to 43. Columbia trailed with 74. Fitzgerald, after coming in 13th against the Bruins, rallied for a fine second-place showing and almost caught Tracy with a stirring last-mile charge...
Ironically, one of the team's really fine efforts of the year came in defeat. In wet, miserable weather at Hanover, the Crimsan staged a rally that almost caught the favored Dartmouth squad. Fitzgerald, running on a severely injured leg, took second behind the Big Green's Tom Laris. However, this performance finished him for the season with an inflamed Achilles tendon...
Kriegsspiel, Anyone? Monotonous languor seems almost the key to an uncanny series of decisions and events that shackled German strength on Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a war game simulating an enemy landing in Normandy. On the very eve of Dday, the Seventh Army, guarding Normandy, was taken off alert because the weather was bad and all previous Allied landings had taken place in fair weather. The 124 planes of the 26th fighter wing stationed near...
...reader may pay for an author's talent and get only his company. Charles Dickens is good company, but this collection of short stories, articles, sketches and short novels displays few of his virtues and almost all of his melodramatic devices. It is chockablock with phantoms, haunts, ominous coincidences, infants lowered into tiny graves to ascend as tiny angels, would-be suicides snatched back at the dark river's edge, pregnant maidens abandoned by heartless cads. This is the Dickens who wrung out Victorian soap opera's dampest hour, and posted "cry now" signs at every chapter...
Pillow Talk. Flighty feathers fluttering around Hollywood's 1958-59 Box Office Champs Rock Hudson and Doris Day, with almost all the flurry caused by top-notch Comic Tony Randall...