Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After viewing the Yale game movies four times, it becomes obvious that Dike Hyde will be one defensive end. The other might well be Ravreby--but then there is a young man named Bob Di Blasio...
...Ladies and gentlemen," the announcer said, "the Dutch national anthem!" At the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, 16,000 track fans rose respectfully while the band tootled an unfamiliar tune in honor of The Netherlands' miler, stringy Willy Slykhuis (rhymes, roughly, with dike mouse).* Then the band played the Swedish national anthem, for Miler Ingvar Bengtsson, and a baritone sang The Star-Spangled Banner. The crowd sat back to wait for Slykhuis and Bengtsson. No foreigner had ever won the Wanamaker Mile, but now that the mighty Gil Dodds had retired, the invaders seemed to have a fine...
...traditional Chinese bargaining methods was expressed by a postman: "It's just like arguing with a ricksha coolie. First he asks for the highest price and then settles for a lower figure." But it was unlikely that the victory-flushed Communists would observe tradition. What was there to dike the flood of Communism if Chiang and the Reds failed to agree on a price...
...Dike Falls. Concluded Bullitt: "The dike which today prevents the Communist flood from sweeping southward to the Indian Ocean is the line of the Yangtze River in China. It is a formidable obstacle ... If the dike of the Yangtze falls, we shall let in upon ourselves a sea of troubles in comparison with which our present problems in the Far East will seem a mere unpleasant puddle . . . We do have to recognize that we are at one of the turning points of human history, and that we cannot afford to be wrong in our decisions, since the stake...
Under a white flag of truce, city fathers made their way 16 miles southeast for an interview with Communist General Lin Piao, who refused either to see or talk to them. Red guns resumed their shelling and Communist troops stormed across a dike surrounding the city to capture the North Station. At week's end it looked as if the clamor for peace in one of China's largest cities had been silenced-by the surging tide of Communist conquest...