Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Siwash George") Carmack staked the first big claim on Aug. 17, 1896, a day still celebrated in Yukon territory. There it was, "lying thick between the flaky slabs of rock like cheese in a sandwich." Charley Anderson bought a claim when drunk for $800, tried to get his money back when sober and could not. Out of it came $1,000,000 and his lifelong nickname, the Lucky Swede. Soon the world outside could talk or dream of little except the Klondike. Preachers, policemen, doctors quit their callings and headed for the bitter North. The mayor of Seattle...
...Long Night begins for Steely, his father has walked out on his family. But on this day, Mamma has hit it lucky playing the numbers game. When she sends Steely to collect her $27, she warns him: "And if you lose that money, boy, don't you come back at all." He doesn't lose it; bigger boys of his own gang take it away from him. The rest of The Long Night tells how Steely tries to beg, borrow or steal $27. No one will let him work for it. The Harlem fancy man for whom...
...Ford Show (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Tennessee Ernie ankles back with more of his dexterously aw-shucked corn and with City Slicker Ernie Kovacs as his guest...
Boulris' brilliant punting played a key role in this containing effort. Several times when the Crimson attack stalled, he sent the Lions back deep in their own ground with his kicks, and in the third period he prevented a possible disaster. Set to punt from the Harvard 30, he got a pass from center which sailed over his head, but raced down to grab it, eluded a blocker, and sent a hurried, low kick bouncing down to the Columbia...
Tillich, who fled from Nazi Germany in 1933, also stated that the South has much older problems than did Nazi Germany, since the South's problems go back to the days of slavery and resentment against the North...