Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coaches Bill McCurdy and Ed Stowell entered the handicap and hauled themselves over the long grind valiantly if not too rapidly. McCurdy finished 25th on a straight time basis; Stowell was farther back in the field...
...would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear of nuclear retaliation. The next step, or possibly a concurrent one, according to Khrushchev, would be the removal of foreign troops from western and central Europe: the United States would pull back 3000 miles across an ocean; the Soviet Union would pull back several hundred miles across land...
With only the relay to be run the Americans had fought back from a 6-4 deficit to tie the score at seven first places each. Also, in 36 previous Anglo-American contests over a span of 64 years, Oxford and Cambridge had won 17, and the American universities (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, and West Point) had taken 17, with two meets being tied...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30--President Eisenhower gave steel union and company leaders a talking-to today, and then they agreed to get back to bargaining tomorrow toward settlement of the 78-day-old strike...
Fresh from the open seas, the sailing team comes back to Cambridge this fall holding the National Intercollegiate Dinghy Championship title...