Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross-Country Preparation...
Most important right now on the track scene is the turn-out for cross country. Competition will begin next October, and Mikkola said that the distance men who wait for the opening of the fall term in September will be seriously handicapped. Work in July will consist of short runs along the river, but later in August, the coach plans to lead his forces over the hills and dales of Medford...
...Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs of his eyepiece. Topside, the Nevada had been painted a livid orange, striped with white. She wore her campaign ribbons painted on big boards-among them the Purple Heart with two stars (one hit at Pearl Harbor, two at Okinawa...
...Saskatchewan's CCF the Morse by-election was important. The riding was a typical cross-section of prairie voters, and CCF now had a two-year record (TIME, June 24) to be judged by. If CCF candidate James Gibson won, it would be a bright green light to Canada's only Socialist government...
Werner Schwalb, a staunch Nazi for most of his 31 years, joined the German Army in 1937. As a tank gunner he won an Iron Cross in the invasion of France. He was with Rommel in North Africa. Then he was captured, and that finished him as a soldier. But not as a Nazi...