Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the last barbed wire was pulled away the attackers crowded up the front steps, and finally forced the 'Poonsters indoors without their banner, ending the whole affair...
...fanciers are a pretty shifty breed, tall, gaunt folks with an option on half the unborn thoroughbred pups in North America. But the dogs themselves are a pleasant, patient lot who accept graciously some small attention and stand stoically as their masters brush, comb, chalk them, or hack away at their toenails...
...Lowell-Dudley tilt was not decided until the final minutes, when the smoothly working league leaders broke away from a 38-38 tie to win their ninth straight contest. Pacing the losers was John Woods, who sank nine out of nine free throws, and added 19 points to his squad's total...
...federal ownership concentrate their views on the Supreme Court decision. They say that since the states never owned the land the states have no rights to be considered whatever. Since the United States has "paramount rights and full dominion" in this land, why should the government give the land away? How can the federal government, they argue, give land in which all the states have an interest to three states? This, they say, would be a quitclaim, and they see no reason...
...bill giving ownership of the tideland oil deposits to the states look at the practical situation in the tidelands today and try to ignore the Court decision as much as possible. They maintain that in practice the states have owned this land, and the federal bill would take it away from them. Great development and organization of the new oil fields have already taken place under state ownership. Such a change as is proposed by the administration would disrupt the whole system and delay the development of the area until a new federal agency could be organized with an experienced...