Word: foray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gauding closely, the home contingent slowly gave ground to the Indian quintet until the opening of the second half, when a Crimson scoring spree carried to within three points of the victors. Jack Carroll, brilliant Hanover forward, single-handedly repulsed this foray; and two later rallies, with right-handed heaves that floated through the meshes from every angle on the floor...
...husband's Cornish estate. She is assisted in her intrigue by one of those button-mouthed little men-servants whose lines, always the wittiest in the play, terminate in a dry "my lady." With the pirate, Dona forgets her inept domesticity in a mischievous piratical foray against her dunderhead neighbors, and in the 17th-Century equivalent of a long weekend at Atlantic City...
...York Times's military expert Hanson Baldwin set himself to answer. "The Pacific Fleet," said he, "is not capable of conducting a major foray today against Japan." He added guardedly: "Of one thing we can be sure-the Navy is not idle." This reassurance would have carried more force if Mr. Baldwin had not promptly followed it with another: "We can lose this war. . . . Far too few of us understand that. . . ." Confusion was confounded when the Navy posted a bulletin in Pearl Harbor. It read: "The United States Navy is still supreme...
Toward the end of the winter, the First made its final foray: a 14-day dash, well southeast of Cuba. Howlin' Mad was satisfied with the results, with the outfit in general. It was time to go home...
...game was the Penn, and it was the first time this season that the team had scrimmaged on a regulation field. Despite this the stickmen led during the first half and only went down to defeat by a score of 5 to 2. Bill Ierardi was injured in this foray after doing extremely well at midfield...