Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wally Mroz, who was hurt in the Camp Edwards fray, was in shape to start the game, but he aggravated that injury early in the first quarter, and had to be assisted from the field...
Argumentum. Into the fray next day jumped the News, to bat for itself, its sister papers and the Hearst Press, to bat at the Herald Tribune. Said the News in the best Joe Patterson manner: "The President's purpose, obviously, was double-barreled: 1) to intimidate all newspapers and magazines in the United States into subservience to his will; 2) to further his ambition for a fourth term...
...secret that the Seventh is spoiling for another fray, "Who will be next?" is their battle...
...Conner that no score should be kept lest Statistician McNeil be compelled to leave the game and keep score on one of his beloved IBM machines. There were no individuals who could be cited for outstanding play; performance was uniformly good (or bad, depending on the point of view.) fray was softened by beer and cold perk. The beer was good; the food was good; and so it was decided by the ASOTS to remain at Harvard in spite of everything...
Sports Page: "Carney Pitches Midshipmen to Moral Vicory Over Supply School Officers." .. Courageously supported by a sterling infield, and what looked to this observer like a pennant winning battery, "Red" "Buster" "Big League" Carney pitched a band-up second inning ball game last Tuesday, almost winning his own fray with a .670 batting average. After seven (7) successive walks by a weary Supply School pitcher, the Middies rosily opened up to score five runs in the second inning. Another one-run rally in the fifth led the Carneyites to a moral victory in the seven inning thriller that made...