Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took Shackleton three more months to get back to his men on Elephant Island. But on Aug. 30, 1916, two years after leaving England, he finally brought his party to safety as he had sworn...
...fool-hero who never surrendered. Shackleton was dead within six years, felled by a heart attack at 48, as he mounted yet another assault on Antarctica. It may have been just as well. His finest hour as an explorer was when he brought the battered Trans-Antarctic Expedition back to civilization and proudly wrote to his wife: "Not a life lost, and we have been through Hell...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8-9:30 p.m.), starring Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton, in a superior version of The Browning Version, Terence Rattigan's sentimental play about an embittered British schoolmaster and the little boy who gives him back his self-respect...
During the first period the Quakers dominated play, jumping away to a 3-0 lead. The Varsity came back in the second quarter to hold Penn scoreless while Dave Bohn and Jerry Pyle both tallied...
...Cadets came back with single runs in the fourth, fifth, and sixth, but Crimson tallies in the sixth and seventh evened things up. Captain John Davis singled to start the sixth. He advanced on Charlie Leamy's grounder, then scored when Charlie Ravenel drove a hit to left...