Word: fraying
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Dunster House virtually clinched the civilian intramural softball championship last Tuesday when it defeated Adams in a wild and wooly fray by a score of 20 to 2. This was the Funsters' second victory against Adams, as against one defeat by the Gold Coasters, and, since Lowell House has not showed up for any of its scheduled games yet, Dunster may now be considered to have added the softball championship to its basketball laurels...
Freyberg v. "The Boss" Sirs: In TIME (March 6) you quote Winston Churchill: "General Alexander has probably seen more fighting against the Germans than any living British commander, unless it be General Freyberg, who is also in the fray. . . ." General Freyberg, as you may know, is a New Zealander. Rommel characterized them as the finest fighting men among the Nazis' enemies. . . . Freyberg is from Wellington College, New Zealand. . . . After he became a hero at Gallipoli in 1915, Freyberg returned on special leave to New Zealand. He visited Wellington College to talk to the boys who had come behind...
...prolonged and intense fierceness have been fought. . . . The enemy has sustained very heavy losses but has not shaken the resistance of the bridgehead army. . . . General Alexander has probably seen more fighting against the Germans than any living British commander, unless it be General Freyberg, who is also in the fray. Alexander says the bitterness and fierceness of the fighting now going on both at the bridgehead and on the Cassino front surpasses all his previous experience.* He even uses in one message to me the word 'terrific...
Republican National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler, undeterred by numerous political prattfalls, charged fresh into the fray last week. He read in the newspapers that Marine Pfc. Edward Meyerson of Montclair, NJ. had written home from the South Pacific to ask his mother for some old Willkie campaign buttons-but that his letter had been censored when he explained why he wanted them. Wrote Chairman Spangler to Secretary of the Navy Knox...
...year stands at four losses and a tie. Before Saturday's game, they had lost to the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy 7 to 1 and tied the squad 3 to 3; to Worcester Polytechnic Institute they lost 7 to 2; and in their final fray of last term the sailors of the French battleship Richelieu were victorious...