Word: direct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With 15 minutes of play gone, the referee called a hands penalty on one of the Crimson defensemen in the penalty area, an Cornell scored its third goal on a direct kick from the free kick spot eight yards out from the goal...
...over an hour one night last week, U.S. Major General Arthur Harper, General Van Fleet's deputy, watched from a Kastoria window as the rebels lobbed sixty 75-mm. shells into the town. A direct hit through the window of a nearby hospital killed two soldiers and two nurses. The next day Americans asked why the city's lights had not been turned off during the shelling. The answer was fear of looting by neighbors. The Greek army's artillery did not answer the guerrillas until half an hour after the shelling had ended...
...eternity, breaking in on me. I kneeled down then and there in that forest glade, in sight of the mountains, and dedicated myself in the hush and silence, but in the presence of an invading life, to the work of interpreting the deeper nature of the soul, and direct mystical relation with God, which had already become my major interest...
...want to marry him, and she hates the way he calls her up during working hours. She is also carrying on a sort of wry flirtation with an aggressive ichthyologist (Don Taylor), who is trying, with no help from her, to put through a personal phone call direct to the President. So she stands both of them up in order to keep a date with a Navy lieutenant (Edmond O'Brien), who is the pet of the White House. However, the lieutenant is nominally engaged to the daughter of a newspaper publisher who could, it seems, make or break...
Just for Defense? The U.S. has no persuasive direct evidence that Russia is preparing an immediate military attack. The Red Army has at least 14 divisions in Eastern Germany-a formidable force compared to the U.S., British and continental troops facing them. There is, however, little evidence that the Russians have been building up their garrison in Germany or preparing it to strike. Some evidence exists of increasing Russian military concentration much farther east, between Kiev and the Rumanian border. This might be preparation for an attack. On the other hand, it might be a Russian defensive measure, springing from...