Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggle. Last week this tendency to capitalist complacency got a pair of them into trouble. In reporting the Polo Grounds row between New York Giants' Manager Leo Durocher and a fan named Fred Boysen (see SPORT), the Daily Worker sport page played it straight at first. Wrote Columnist Bill Mardo: "One wants to see the respective merits of this case, and nothing else, brought out in the open and aired properly . . ." And Columnist Lester Rodney chimed in: "I'm making no prejudgment here...
...whole town was talking about him. He had left an estate of $100,000, and he had put it all in trust for the kids. From now on, on the last day before Easter holidays and again before Christmas, every boy & girl at John Kerr will get a $5 bill from Charley's estate to spend as he wishes. Old Winchesterites might soon forget Peddler Charles Henry but young Winchesterites would remember him for years to come...
...privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk, the man who had as many voices as he had characters, could feel his pulse rise from 80 to 120 beats a minute as, in the person of Bill Sikes, he advanced on himself in the person of Nancy, and her dying "shrieks rang through the hall." Once offstage, Dickens would collapse...
Western Union Company probably prevented Bill Rickenbacker from winning the New England student golf championship Saturday morning...
Harvard didn't gain the lead until the halfway mark. Stroke Bill Curwen had been setting a steady 32 beat and then slowly increased it to 36 to pull even with the Penn beat which was stroking at 39. The Crimson's terrific sprint, coupled with Penn's poor steering, gave Harvard a two-thirds length victory victory and with it the championship...