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Word: goodenough (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Star of the walkaway victory was Backyard Stupor, who reeled off gains of 45 and 65 yards to tally twice for the Plympton marauders. Behind good blocking and spirited team play, run after run crossed the platter before the Dutch Tile merchants could organize their defense. Only Minus Goodenough failed to score for the journalists in the free-for-all hitting contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hrabious Crimeds Dine on Runcihle Poon, Detging All Predictions in 23-2 Clambake | 5/9/1947 | See Source »

Onward Christian Soldiers. In Saskatchewan, a returned antitank battery explained why it was called the "Pious 65th": it boasted three Bishops, two Parsons, one Churchman and one Goodenough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Minus Goodenough was the star for the Crimeds, and his high-flying pow! in the second half of the first set the pace for the conquering juggernaut. Umpire Thomas O'Kearney -Lamont, Lampoon appointee, stared oggle-eyed as the runners trotted around the bases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poonsters BOTTLED IN BOND AS CRIME PLUCKS 23 TO 2 PLUM | 5/15/1945 | See Source »

...muscular Michael Slavik, 23, decided to have another drink. To a man who has killed a dozen-or-so Japs in the jungles of Goodenough Island, Finschhaven and Sanananda, there is not much going on in Passaic, N.J. To Mike, L's Tavern in Passaic looked like a more exciting place to welcome Christmas in than his neatly furnished cubicle at the Gregory Street rooming house. But even at a bar, an ex-sergeant of paratroopers who has won a Silver Star, a Purple Heart, a shell fragment in his right leg and a bayonet scar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Homecoming | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...MacArthur's critical weakness has been ships. But he mustered at least enough to carry out a flanking operation on the north coast. Troops from Milne Bay, on New Guinea's eastern tip, sailed 50 miles northward and landed at Goodenough Island, "clearing remnants of hostile forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Toward a Japless New Guinea? | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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