Word: cindered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cinquemani, a lean, leathery, 65-year-old Sicilian with a point of view of his own. By next month Salvatore would be the only private tenant left on U.N.'s rubble-covered property. His establishment was tucked in a corner of the site, overlooking the East River: two cinder-packed bocce courts (bocce is the Italian form of outdoor bowling), surrounded by knee-high board fences. Salvatore's customers were mostly shirt-sleeved, elderly men. When they were not playing they sat on orange crates and empty nail kegs, playing cards...
...Compton, Calif., a lanky Negro named Lloyd La Beach (Panama's one-man Olympic hope) burned up the cinder path for 200 meters. His time (20.2) knocked one-tenth of a second off the world mark set by Jesse Owens back in 1935. Next day, long-legged Negro Herb McKenley (Jamaica's one-man Olympic hope) ran a dizzy 440 yards. The time (46 flat) chipped three-tenths of a second off his own world's record set a year...
Twenty-two out of the twenty-four times Harvard has gotten Dartmouth alone on a cinder track the Indians have yelled uncle. Reports from the north this year, though, have it that the Big Green team which will go against the Varsity today at 1:30 o'clock in the Stadium doesn't know what the word uncle means...
...Captain Kenny O'Donnell, who suggested the move, 85 Varsity candidates ran four laps, churning the firm cinder track into the general consistency of a newly-plowed Dust Bowl. The cindermen weren't unhappy, since they plan to move outdoors anyway, and Art Valpey positively beamed...
...youthful cinder of two or three billion years, the earth has a lot of ailments. And man, the principal sufferer, knows precious little about the earthquakes, volcanoes, tidal waves and other ills that plague the planet. Last week, in a new book, Causes of Catastrophe (Whittlesey; $3), Lewis Don Leet, professor of seismology at Harvard, summed up some old and new diagnoses...