Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 20 Mounties and constables and about 40 civilians were injured. Scores of other townspeople had superficial aches and bruises. The worst injury done was to Canada's reputation. Brawls like this one were obscuring the Dominion's superb war effort...
...delicate ballet in an aura of the supernatural when Lista, the Dark Witch, and Croma, the Fair Witch, jealous of Barbara Allen--"we ain't got nothin' again her, only we just as soon she's daid"--flit by John in the forest, flaunting their sensuous beauty, mocking his effort to escape the fetters of Hell and assume human form...
...Tootell's best effort since he entered College last November with the Class of '48b, fresh from Tabor Academy, where he had copped the national interscholastic shot-put title. Previously during the past term, he had won easily at Tufts, Andover, and Exeter, switching in the two prep-school meets to the lighter 12 pound schoolboy shot...
This week a powerful voice echoed General Chou. Growled Moscow's Pravda: Chungking's recent governmental reforms were "no more than a reshuffling of the cards." China's war effort lagged because Chiang Kai-shek had failed to solve Chungking's "internal political crisis" and "democratize the state...
...last at Yale, he has taken a final fling at rewriting the record books. Result: eleven new American free-style and backstroke marks. Last week, in the midst of his final Navy (V12) exams, he made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards in 49.4 seconds, faster than any human ever swam before. It shattered Johnny Weissmuller's 17-year...