Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elis opened the game with surprisingly conservative hockey, refraining from serious forechecking and playing a close defensive game. Even so, the varsity's pitifully poor passing and positioning on the clears kept it from scoring...
...London newspapers in close touch with official thinking, the Sunday Times and the Observer, reported that Macmillan will urge President Eisenhower and President Charles de Gaulle of France to go with him to the summit...
...losers, it was an excellent performance even in defeat. The varsity was playing against a Princeton quintet that has been playing together for three years, a team composed entirely of seniors except for Jim Brangan. That they came so close to upsetting the Tiger applecart is a tribute to the varsity's courage, hustle, and determination
Periodically over the centuries, the area known as the Borinage gives a twitch of excruciating pain, and all Belgium suffers. Death has always been close by in that flat, depressing southern region...
Just as in Zola's day, it was jobs and bread that the miners wanted. The spontaneous strike was called to protest the decision of the Belgian National Coal Board to close down eight of 13 Borinage mines and to limit production in the remaining five to 8,000 tons daily. Yet the decision has long been inevitable and was postponed only because successive governments feared to make...