Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of helping them, but he is too confused to make up his mind. Even his adventures with a refugee Russian girl and with his boss's wife have a nightmare quality of distracted escape. In the end he does escape, from China and from himself, heads back to the U.S. with the refugee tart, unsettled and despairing...
...next day, back in uniform and full of grace, The Lip walked modestly across the Polo Grounds to the Giants' dugout. The public-address system blared a recording of When You Were Sweet Sixteen ("I love you as I never loved before"), and his team clobbered the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 11-4. This week, on advice of counsel, Fred Boysen, the young Puerto Rican who tangled with Durocher, dropped his charge of simple assault...
Annex Zionists won back their charter Thursday after handing the proper credentials in to the executive board, which was granted power by Council to recharter both the Zionists and the German Club as soon as they complied with the rules...
Springfield fought back with two more scores in the last period as the rain lifted, but Bruce Munro's team had the game in hand by then...
Miss Colligan, who "knows no particular Harvard men," was one of four models invited to a junior prom at the New Jersey institution by earnest undergraduate literati, and co-incidentally written up in the current Look. Safely back in New York, Miss Colligan gasped that "men from Harvard are distinguished and very fine gentlemen...