Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...training camp, crusty Lester Patrick tried to cut Lynn from the squad, but Frank Boucher persuaded him to keep the boy on. Says Lynn: "It wasn't easy to work under dad." The other players distrusted him, the fans booed him, and his father was rougher on Lynn than on anybody else. But by 1942 Lynn was one of the National Hockey League's top scorers, made the all-star team, and was popular with fellow players...
...Castle Closet. Not until last summer, 18 years later, did Dieckmann, now a U.S. citizen, get back to France. This time, he wrote, telephoned and called on the baron. Finally, the baron told him to go out to his castle outside Fécamp: there were some papers there...
...elevens. He led the football varsity for a portion of a game against Pennsylvania in 1892 and then again served as captain against Princeton the following year. Lewis thus precedes Levi Jackson of Yale as the Ivy League's first colored football captain by 57 years. In 1912 Walter Camp placed Lewis on his all time All-American team...
After World War I, there arose a fourth contradiction-between the capitalistic "camp" and the anticapitalistic Soviet Union...
Next day the Ferencvaros team was suspended for four weeks, its stadium closed. The official announcement spoke of "enemies of Hungarian democracy who attack our constitution through sports." Even though Budapesters boycotted all soccer games, Ferencvaros knuckled under. The team "applied to Comrade Rakosi for assistance," asked "the democratic camp of the [soccer] association to eliminate the reactionaries...