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Word: ekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the two teams met again in 1911, the Crimson was embarked upon a period of football greatness. Princeton managed, nonetheless, to eke out an 8-6 triumph that fall, and in 1912 the Crimson had to struggle...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Harvard--Princeton Rivalry | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...Lange) is a Radcliffe grad who goes to work for a paperback publisher and in the evening takes a postgraduate course in premarital relations at the Plaza Hotel. When she discovers that the course only leads to a mistress' degree, she decides to concentrate on her career and eke out her love life with an alcoholic editor of teen topics (Stephen Boyd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Only a superlative, emotion-packed effort by the entire team allowed the Crimson to eke out a 10-3 triumph over Yale in the season's final game. The battered and exhausted Crimson was relieved to see one of its roughest campaigns draw to a close...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/22/1959 | See Source »

...Northwestern (3-0)-Bob Eickhoff, a fourth-string, 157-lb. quarterback, led a desperate, last-period march to eke out a none-too-impressive 6-0 victory over aroused Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top Ten | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Returning to Oregon, Beatie married hastily, was quickly divorced, then drifted to San Francisco and to the bottom of the ladder. He walked slowly, with a cane, and he found relief in cheap wine and whisky. He managed to eke out a living with occasional odd jobs and his $19-a-month Army pension. He kept to himself, lived and drank in a shack behind a waterfront store, did not fraternize with the run of Skid Row bums. Yet for some reason they liked him, and there was something in him that even they could admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Missing from the Reunion | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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