Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Theatre Workshop met the challenge last night with what is probably among the most ambitious productions over attempted in Harvard College. Technical aspects aside, the Workshop presented a cast with an almost unbelievable number of competent-or-better actors, who turned what otherwise could have been a colossal shambles...
The Clann na Poblachta (Republican Party), founded only a year ago, had dared to challenge Dev's Fianna Fail. In Dublin, Waterford and Tipperary Counties, Clann candidates cut heavily into the Fianna's 1944 majorities. "The political tide, if it has not yet turned," said the Irish Times...
Like a transcontinental echo of Bernard Baruch's challenge, San Francisco rumbled last week with a battle over compulsory health insurance. Under fire was a medical system covering San Francisco's 12,000 municipal employees. The only governmental compulsory health insurance system in the U.S., it provides medical...
The challenge of the athletic, tweedy, young Oxford-trained dons of Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal universities has only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey...
Goateed Sir Hubert Wilkins, 47, intrepid Arctic explorer, faced a new challenge: in Seattle a stalled elevator trapped him (and the operator) between floors for ten minutes. Sir Hubert finally fought his way back to civilization by clambering up through the emergency exit.