Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a tough, imperialistic warrior shogun, was the first Japanese to dream of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. As an anchor for his international conquests, Hideyoshi chose Osaka, built a castle there in the latter part of the 16th Century. Hideyoshi and Osaka got along fine, and ever since then Osaka's merchants have done their best to keep alive his spirit. They gambled when the gambling was good, hedged only when they had to. They became and remain to this day the financial lords of Japan...
Caught. But as he spoke the U.S. Government was still watching him. It urgently asked Great Britain to hold him for extradition. When the Batory dropped anchor off Southampton a tender bearing a Scotland Yard inspector, a covey of beefy British plainclothesmen, two indignant Polish diplomats and a scattering of U.S. officials chugged out to meet...
Just as the Magdalena neared famed Sugar Loaf, her deck plates began to buckle. Captain Lee dropped anchor, for the second time gave the abandon-ship order. Then, with a rending sound like the falling of a giant tree, the ship broke in two, her nose rising crazily...
...wasn't even speaking to himself after the varsity swimmer's heart yarding 41 to 34 loss to Army Saturday after before the largest crowd of the last in the Indoor Athletic Building. As anchor man in the 400 yard freestyle, Fox churned out the fastest 100 yards in his life, 52.0 seconds, only to such two tenths of a second behind Fary's great Jim Smyly. By winning of event, Smyly untied the meet for second, and clinched second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League for the badets, Yale has already drubbed Army...
...with one of the biggest thrills of the day with their neck and neck race with Yale. Tom McGrath led off, ran a steady race, and passed the stick to John Packard who lost ground to Yale's Ellinger. Rounie Berman then narrowed the Elis' margin to 3 yards. Anchor man Eddie Grutsner made a gallant try for the lead but Yale's Brown finished with a 1 1/2 yard advantage. The winning time was 329.9 with Dartmouth in 3rd place. Berman noted that inexperience in competition seemed to be what hurt the '52 runners most...