Word: byword
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union payroll. Often trapped, he invariably escaped by charging headlong into his would-be captors. Often wounded and reported dead, he always turned up again more daring and dangerous than before. His name became "a synonym in the South for brave deeds and daring escapades, a byword in the North for fear and hatred and chagrin...
...Chinese also look for great coal resources. Copper, critically deficient in the interior, is in Sinkiang; so are iron, molybdenum and other ores. Sinkiang's succulent fruits and melons are a byword in Asia. Its superb cotton, its magnificent horses are all of matchless quality. But peasant immigration must be limited to water resources-three or four millions is probably the maximum total of agricultural pioneers...
...whose name is a romantic byword wherever sulkymen gather, it was no comeback. This year's Hambletonian was the fourth he had won since the classic got under way in 1926 (no other driver has won more than twice) when Mr. Ben was a stripling of 53. It was the second Hambletonian he had snatched with his gnarled, gentle hands in two years of racing. For age and longtime performance, U.S. sport had never seen his equal...
...hard to quench the fever of revolt which was rising ever higher in France. Last week trains loaded with Nazi troops and materiel were derailed, Nazi soldiers were assassinated. To seething, rebellious Paris, Adolf Hitler sent his chief executioner, lean, cold Reinhard Heydrich, whose name has become a horrid byword wherever hostages' eyes are bandaged and their arms bound...
Along Princeton's Nassau Street undergraduates hailed each other last week with a new cry: "Are you accelerating?" Acceleration was becoming a campus byword, for as they opened a new term this week most U.S. colleges began a speeded-up program that cut their four-year course to three years or less...