Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissar Kliment Voroshilov, soon to visit Berlin, Il Corriere Padano cracked: "If Lenin first, and Stalin afterward set eyes on him, it was simply because they judged him an exceptional gangster. For us, Voroshilov and his equals, like all carrion of Bolshevik Russia, do not interest us a bit. If among themselves they exalt or destroy one another, that is their affair. At worst there will be one less criminal going around the world...
...once did in the 12th grade) we'd get a favorite little plan of ours off our chest. Statesmen and diplomats and "the folks who are in the know" would have to put on boxing gloves and fight it out in the front line. If they got a bit hurt --well, that's really the most important part of our plan. Only the men over 45 (and the women who admitted it) and our special regiment made up of "trash" would be allowed anywhere near the battlefield. The rest of the army, which would be mostly college boys, could just...
...press is that Mr. Hooton got there first. If we could only find that schoolboy essay of ours, we'd almost be willing to claim plagiarism. But the public has the story now, and it's just as well it came from Mr. Hooton. We were always a bit shy about talking to reporters, and by the time we got to those grown-up ideas and long words, we'd have to call on the Professor anyway...
Cheered by the return of allying Torbie Macdonald to his regular tailback post yesterday afternoon, the Crimson Varsity football squad went through a spirited workout, which was devoted to learning defensive assignments against Penn plays and acquiring a bit more offensive polish. This was topped off by a brisk 40 minute scrimmage between the C team and the Jayvees...
When it comes to the line, it's actually sing a song of sixpence, because line mentor Rae Crowther can trot out a horde of big and active forwards. The first front wall averages 195 pounds from end to end, and the reserves are every bit as big. The three ranking ends, Captain Gustafson, Warner, and Miller are rangy and hard to circle. The tackles are headed by Yard, Cohen, Runte, and Engler--841 pounds of tackle material all told...