Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case is weakened by the restriction on facts he can print to back it up. Bush details the changes in warfare since World War II, and those we can reasonably expect in the future. He describes how light, mobile, powerful weapons such as recoilless guns have swung the advantage in land warfare back to the defense; how the co-ordination of radar net, jet-aircraft, and guided missile should make things very tough for the high-altitude bomber; bow rockets and fast submarines will be advanced enough to chop up conventional naval vessels at long range. Bush tends to describe...
...polo team came back from New Jersey yesterday after dropping a close 16 to 15 decision to Princeton in an indoor battle which saw two extra chukkers...
When he completes his three weeks of concerts in Chicago (where besides music by fellow Czechs Smetana and Janacek he will conduct Countryman Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony), Rafael will set out again. After an engagement as guest conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he will head back to Europe for orchestra dates in Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. Next summer he plans a tour of South America. By that time, if he decided to settle down, he could be sure of some offers. One job Kubelik admirers in Britain would like to see him take: that...
...students invaded the weekly "coffee & doughnuts" meeting of the Boosters' Club, got the Boosters to sign for 1,500 tickets there & then. They plastered the town with signs ("Wanna see a college that's really on the beam? Fill the stands on Saturday and watch us back our team!"). Twice a day, they snarled traffic with their jalopies, peddled tickets to pedestrians and motorists. Each afternoon they had a six-piece band jiving in front of the Book Nook store. Covering every angle, they even patched the hole in the stadium fence so that grade-school kids could...
Testing. In Baltimore, Liquor Dealer Albert Steinberg reluctantly handed over $100 to a holdup man who tossed back the cash and said: "I don't want your money. I just wanted to see how much guts...