Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor entered the fray with a proud record: not a single parliamentary seat lost in 46 by-elections since it came to power in 1945. To fill the seat left vacant when Hammersmith's Laborite W. T. Adams died last January, Labor had picked a 33-year-old ex-R.A.F. chaplain and Oxford don named Tom Williams. Tom's father was a Welsh miner who came home permanently crippled from World War I. His mother died when he was three. By scholarships and hard work, Tom fought his way through the Universities of Wales and Oxford, picking...
...Winthrop-Eliot fray, centerman Ted Nelson of the Puritans outjumped center Bob Crichton of Eliot to keep Winthrop ahead during the entire game. The final score...
...Gelotte it has been something of a business bonanza too. Last Saturday, for instance, he sent two cameramen and $1,000 worth of cinema machinery to Ithaca for the Dartmouth-Cornell fray, to two Boston area high school games, and to Worcester for the Holy Cross-Fordham game; and he sent four cameramen and $2,000 worth of equipment to Soldiers Field for two shootings of the Brown-Harvard encounter and to Newton for two filmings of the Boston College-William & Mary game...
There was a breather against Dunster, and then the Mastodens ran up against Adams House, the Holy Cross of the league, boasting a line averaging well over 200 pounds. Dave Wheeler emerged from the fray badly battered and indefinitely sidelined, and All-House quarterback Dave McGiffert was helped off the field with a sprained knee...
...triumphantly carried a captured broom from the fray. At week's end, the street cleaners scornfully rejected an offer of a 10,000-lire bonus, held out for 15,000, Palmiro Togliatti appeared in the Chamber of Deputies. He wore his suavest air and his famous blue, double-breasted serge suit. Said he piously: "Parliament is the center of democratic life and it is bound to a concept of tolerance between men who fight for their own ideas...