Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fail Safe point without getting coded follow-up orders to proceed, they must automatically turn around and head home. Should they get the order to go on-e.g., "Implement Plan Red Fox Eight"-they must still check the order with base command; they must go through several cross checks on message and frequency to ensure against decoy; they must get yet another confirmatory order to proceed. In a normal tactical situation, the only man who can give the final order to attack is the President of the U.S., who relays it to General Power, who relays...
Even as a preteenager, the nameless boy-narrator of Stars is the butt of his Danish schoolmates' gibes. They shrill "Cross-eyes" when he squints. At recess time, they rip off his cap and toss it into the chestnut tree. When he cannot quite make out the math problems on the blackboard and whispers questioningly to a deskmate, the teacher canes him. The boy takes this ugly-duckling treatment philosophically. He believes that his ugly-duckling family, as well as his weak eyes, is to blame...
Novelist John Wain, 33, is identified by his British critics and his U.S. publisher as one of the Angry Young Men, but his second novel to cross the Atlantic does not look back in anger. It is a lively, funny story, essentially an American-style narrative about how men make good in a bad way in the big city and learn that success in the end is nothing but dust and ashes...
...varsity's next match will be played on Tuesday at Charles River, against a fairly strong Holy Cross team. Next Saturday the Crimson will travel to New York City to meet Columbia and Penn...
...triangulars tomorrow will be followed by a match with Holy Cross on next Tuesday at Charles River. Next weekend, the varsity will travel to New York City to meet Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania at Van Cortlandt Park...