Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's end, his job superlatively done, Franks went back again ("to recharge my batteries") to his beloved Oxford. This time London gave him two months, then sent him to Washington...
...Near the end of last year, the colony had ten cows; 50 of its 320 acres had been cleared for vegetable gardens and 300 orchard trees had been planted. The elders met, decided to lift the ban on children. In July, husky, unmarried, 36-year-old Florence Berikoff bore the first child, a boy. It was, said Colony Spokesman Joseph Podovinikoff, "the first free motherhood" based on 400-year-old Doukhobor principles...
Often she has had the closing program spot, which might mean waiting until the end of an extra-inning night baseball game. Once, ready and made-up at 8 p.m., she went on the air sometime after midnight. "If the image was wobbly it wasn't because of bad transmission," she says. "It was just my make-up blurring." Another night a "deuce" (2,000-watt spotlight) exploded while she was singing a number called Lovers' Gold. Showered by shattered glass from the smoking, spluttering lamp, Bargy didn't miss a single tremulous note. Besides poise...
...shrouded Ganton course, the aroused British gave the heavily favored Americans a jolt. In Scotch-foursome play (where partners alternate hitting the same ball), a pair of 41-year-old Englishmen nosed out the cream of U.S. golfers-Sam Snead and Lloyd Mangrum-and won, one up. At the end of the first day's play, Britain led, three matches...
...end of nine rounds, Rocky Graziano sat in his corner, his face smeared with blood and bewilderment.The reform-school graduate who used to thrill Manhattan crowds with his ferocious, windmill technique was losing his first major fight in New York after a three-year exile. "You've got to knock him out," warned his manager, while he smeared carpenter's wax on a cut above Rocky's left eye. Growled Graziano, impatiently: "I still got one round...