Word: chalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it could not forbid Dr. Moon to teach in Canada; but neither could it promise forgiveness for everything he might do or say in future. If he divulged official secrets during lectures in Canada, he would certainly be in bad. Furthermore, he had better keep away altogether from Chalk River, Canada's Government center of nuclear research, and he certainly could not continue as a consultant...
Though the American Community School had to share in all of France's shortages, its first postwar year had not gone badly. Textbooks, chalk and lamp bulbs were hard to get, the electric current was cut off frequently. But fiftyish Headmaster Paul de Rosay was an old hand at the game. He had first gone to France in World War I with a Harvard ambulance unit. In 1923 he opened the first American day school in Paris for the children of U.S. businessmen and diplomats abroad...
...Holland was leading Rose by a few seconds. A sudden fear seized Lou Moore: would his two drivers get into a stretch rivalry, burn up his beautiful autos and drop out when the race was all but won? Time after time, on the chalk board he ordered "EZY" as Holland passed the pit. On the 193rd lap, with auto racing's biggest honor his for the taking, Rookie Holland obeyed the "EZY" sign-and Oldtimer Mauri Rose (who had cracked up on the 40th lap last year) went into the lead. When a mechanic got set to signal Rose...
...years, Billy Rose has sprinted breathlessly (sometimes sidestepping, and down dark alleys) from grinding poverty to easeful wealth, from chalk on the sidewalk to a Rembrandt in his parlor, from a cold-water tenement to elegant $100,000 diggings on Manhattan's Beekman Place...
...Chalk up one Brooklyn strike for Bowler Varipapa...