Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marshall decided to try law school. The University of Maryland was barred to him, so he commuted to Howard University in Washington. Within a week Marshall knew that "this was it. This was what I wanted to do for as long as I lived." Only a fair college student, he had to meet very tough standards at Howard. "I got through simply by overwhelming the job. I was at it 20 hours a day, seven days a week...
...long kiss as the crowd cheered. But in another fight last week at Aranjuez, near Madrid, more sober-minded aficionados seemed less happy about Ava and the toreador. Ava was dazzling as ever in a yellow frock, but Cesar was peaked and off his form; he fought only a fair fight and won neither ear nor tail for his lady...
...they posed together for news photographers at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit, it was not easy to tell who looked prouder, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson or Windrow Helene, his prize four-year-old cow. Windrow Helene, who produced 10,658 Ibs. (4,956 qts.) of milk in 305 days, was crowned grand champion female of the Ayrshire breed...
...York State Fair in Syracuse, Michigan's Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams smiled into news cameras after Iroquois Indians made him a blood brother, crowned him with a plumed headdress and handed him a small pillow picturing him on his way from Lansing, Mich, to the White House...
...only annoyed his mother, who hated Samoa. Fanny wrote: "She dislikes the life here which we find so enchanting, and is disappointed and soured that she is not able to persuade us to throw it all up and go to the colonies. We have given the colonies a fair trial, and they mean death to Louis ... It is very difficult for me to understand that anyone can prefer a life of calls, leaving and receiving cards, with a proper church and invested meals and a nap on Sundays...