Word: birches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Governor Sir John Harding declared a state of emergency in Cyprus last month, he decreed jail sentences for demonstrating, death for carrying firearms and "up to twelve strokes with cane, birch or rod" for rioting by school: boys. But still the agitation for enosis (union) with Greece continued. Last week four British Tommies were shot down by Sten gunfire from a passing car; a grenade tossed into an army truck killed its driver...
Bill Collins of the first forward line, Dick Fischer and Gord Marlow of the second, and Bill Deford of the third scored two goals apiece. Other Crimson tallies came from the sticks of Dick Birch, Paul Kelley, and Dick McLaughlin...
Third period scoring began with left wing Fischer placing one on an assist from Maurice Balboni. In the same period William DeFord drove one in on a pass from David Birch, bringing the score to 5-0. The final goal of the game was made by first line center Higginbottom, assisted by John Filoon...
...winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that has been tenderly overgrown by young birch and honeysuckle...
Driving through birch woods, through forests of fir, bridging huge rivers, crossing the deep, black-soil plains of the Ukraine, filtrating through the great marshlands, fighting, always fighting, in winter blizzard or in blistering summer heat, the Red army recaptured half a million square miles of territory in two years, and liberated Soviet Russia. New names had come up beside Zhukov's: Konev, Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Tolbukhin, Malinovsky, Chuikov, Govorov, Voronov and others, almost all men less than 40 years of age. One name that did not make the headlines was that of Secret Police Commissar Serov, who came close...