Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spunk & Sparkle. Expressen was an extravert right from its wartime beginnings in neutral Sweden. Bonnier wanted a paper that would back the Allies (only some 20% of Sweden's editors were pro-German at the time), needed an editor with enough spunk and sparkle to put Expressen apart from the rest of the Swedish press, which was generally cast in the sobersided Scandinavian tradition...
...Levi Aims Back was picked up Sunday night back of George Wippert Place where he was hung up by one leg on a barbed wire fence. More fences would help the police...
...Last week Chief Big Eagle went out one morning with two buckets after water. He never came back so one of his daughters went down to see what happened. The buckets were there but no Big Eagle. He was already in Valier he went after some thing stronger than whitetail water...
...sign on the office door read DON'T KNOCK. COME IN. Inside, a small, spectacled man leaned back in his chair and surveyed the walls, decorated heavily with rowing memorabilia. "I am satisfied to retire," said Carroll Ebright, 65, the University of California's head rowing coach since 1924. "I have seen our crews reach worldwide acclaim; I have been down, and now I see us coming back again. It is time for a younger...
When "Ky" Ebright retires in June, he can look back on one of the most successful records in rowing. His crews have been national college champions six times, took Olympic titles in 1928, 1932 and 1948. Last week, attired in his traditional battered hat, stubby (5 ft. 6 in.) Ky Ebright was still bustling around the California boathouse on the Oakland Estuary, roaring instructions and encouragement as he drove his oarsmen through his last season...