Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four of the six Crimson golfers scored 76 or better. Bob Matson and Dick O'Keeffe, playing together in the second foursome, both scored 72. Bill Rickenbacker and Herb Mce won their individual matches with 76 and combined to win their best two out of four. Harvard's blanket win was completed by Jack Denton and Sam Seager. They scored individual victories and the third combined...
...next hour, firemen poured water on the tractor and Billy from relays of tank trucks. They laid an asbestos blanket over Billy who crouched down on the seat, told his rescuers nonchalantly: "Take it easy." Then a water truck ran dry, and firemen watched helplessly as flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...
...Little Brat." Bevan was born 51 years ago in the Welsh hills which are slag-pocked and crumpled like a tattered old flannel blanket. The names of his brothers & sisters sounded like a Celtic fairy tale-Blodwyn, Myfanwy, Arianwen, lorwerth. There was nothing romantic about the Bevans' tiny four-room house with its sanded floor. "There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets...
...schools. Each department would approve only those courses which were adaptable to the individual student's program. The system would draw upon Faculty members' familiarity with the quality of instruction in their fields at other institutions, and at the same time relieve University Hall of the responsibility of giving blanket approvals to certain entire schools...
...their common trade; 3) he is boss and intends to assert it; 4) the American majority and most men & women of good will support him down to the item; and 5) if his friends are criticized, with or without good basis, it is a virtue to make a blanket defense of them and keep them in the places to which they are assigned...