Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even try to stop him: "They just let him through, peaceful like." In basketball, in his senior year, he averaged 18 points a game. In the West Coast relays in 1947, he won the shot, discus and high hurdles, tied for second in the high jump and ran the anchor leg on Tulare's winning relay team...
Glittering in his gold-laced uniform, Denmark's King Frederik boarded the 1,054-ton royal yacht Dannebrog in Copenhagen harbor and weighed anchor for Greenland on his first official visit since 1921. Queen In grid, who does not share her salty husband's love of the sea, announced that she would make the trip...
Getting such ancient enemies together was an amazing tribute to the Russians; it was concern about the common peril which had united Greece and Turkey, made them NATO's newest partners, and led them to deploy their 29 divisions to guard the southern anchor of the Atlantic defense line. An old Istanbul grocer who fought the Greeks under Ataturk explained the change simply: "The Greeks don't like the Russians much and I hate them...
...movie's Mayflower is in the popular tradition of the Pilgrim Fathers. The big romance is between Captain Christopher Jones (Spencer Tracy) and the seductive Mrs. Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney). wife of the colony's Governor-to-be William Bradford. By the time the ship drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor, Dorothy and the captain have done a little light romancing and she takes the easiest way out of the triangle by drowning herself...
...lull in battle. Lithuanian Sergeant Rekstis' mortar was silent. At the siege of Quong Lam a few weeks ago, Italians, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Yugoslavs had taken bets on whether a Viet Minh sniper would get Private Mommaire (Belgian, perhaps, or Swiss). Now Mommaire was idly admiring the anchor tattooed on his left arm, and dreaming nostalgically of his years in the navy. Whose navy? No one in Bacninh knew-and in the Legion whose soldiers are meant to die, no one asks or cares...