Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard G. Wharton of Roxbury, Mass., and Matthews Hall, has been elected captain of the freshman track team. Wharton, who ran number three for the freshman cross country team, competes in the 600 yard run and the mile relay; he has won the 600 in each of the Yardlings' four meets this winter...
Today's congressional parties are not even split into definite factions. Each legislator studies his own state or district, pursues his own formula of how to get reelected. All legislators cross party lines freely and with impunity, and nobody can read them out of the party. The congressional party whips do more wheedling than whipping, and the party leaders have become brokers of opinions and, occasionally, managers of debating teams...
...Manhattan, the Duquesne basketball team, ranked second in the U.S. (after Kentucky), won the second annual Holiday Festival tournament, beating Niagara 66-61 in. the finals. Other basketball-tournament results: Holy Cross defeated Louisiana State 66-56 in the Sugar Bowl; Duke dropped Navy from the list of the undefeated, 98-83, in the Dixie Classic at Raleigh...
...basic Basie imprint. After the Count played a phrase or two on the piano, the rhythm section began to boost the beat while cymbals sizzled in the background. Five saxophones took up the melody, sweetly and a bit hoarsely, and then seven brasses began to clip into it with cross rhythms. Suddenly the snare drum cut loose with the effect of a burp gun, and the whole band leaped into ear-crushing chords and rammed home the climax...
...family raving mad. Ah hear his mudder say he must never cross de threshold of her door again...