Word: alonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Along with Bowditch and Richling at forwards, Coach Bruce Munro plans to start Guy Vise at center and Greg Loser and Ray Cogswell at the guard positions. The outcome of the game may well hinge on Vise's rebounding and the ballhandling of the backcourt...
...time (10:16.2). He told John just how fast to swim each lap of both the 440 and the 1650, and saw John follow orders so closely that the youngster broke six world records on the way to winning both races. In the 1,650-yd. swim, John kicked along so well that he cracked four records before he finished the grind...
...trains on the New Haven near Port Chester, N.Y. held up 15 following trains, packed with 3,000 commuters, for as much as eight hours. No sooner was that mess cleared up than two more derailments on successive days snarled the New Haven all over again. In jampacked stations along the coast, schedules and timetables became meaningless. Only a few trains held to the luxury of dining cars-and these soon ran out of everything, including water...
...panic, Tsubame passed the hat and raised $20,000 to send Mayor Ko Tamaki to Washington with nine other delegates to see the President. (It also stopped building the road after 50 yards.) They brought along petitions signed by 14,000 townspeople and a stack of pleading letters written by schoolchildren in halting English. ("Mayor Tamaki as well as the folks in the town of Tsubame is now in a fix with your plan to raise the duty.") The President did not see the delegation, but it did get in to visit third-echelon officials...
Twelve months ago, a modern, 10,000-ton collier bound for Europe could be counted on to earn $3,570 profit each day at sea. Last week the same coal-laden vessel on the same run was losing up to $280 a day. After steaming along the crest of postwar prosperity, shipping is down in the trough of a deepening recession...