Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed the discovery by 'Poonsters, still rankling over their 23 to 2 baseball defeat at the hands of the Crime last Saturday, that the ulterior regions of their Ibis had been painted red some observers termed the color crimson-Monday night. In seeking a temporary armistice after Tuesday's fray, Lampy revealed that his stuffed Ibis, even more sacred than the metal one that stands vigil over Bow Street, had been lost in Saturday's revels...
Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
Meanwhile, the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, chief sponsor of Henry Wallace, jumped into the fray with both feet. From PAChairman Sidney Hillman went an order to regional PAC committees to put all possible pressure on the Senate. To Sidney Hillman, the election of last November had merely been a "preliminary victory." This was the real fight-to keep Henry Wallace in the Government, to make his philosophy prevail, to build him up as the logical successor of Franklin Roosevelt...
Entering into the fray of college educators over the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (the GI Bill of Rights) President Conant in his annual report to the University trustees yesterday urged revision of the Act to assure professional training at government expense for veterans of exceptional ability...
From the outset, defeat seemed in store for the Crimson. After ten minutes of play with the visitors already trailing the P.T. men, Stahl's regulars arrived on the scehe to rush into the fray with nary a practice shot. They started slow and never quite hit their stride all evening. Melville picked up a seven point advantage in the first two periods and keeping to their fast pace in the closing stanzas, nearly doubled their lead...