Word: guards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manners." A neat rear-guard action was executed by Mr. Hopkins in a parenthetic reference to the "generous peace" of the TVA-Commonwealth & Southern settlement...
...White will be up in the front court with Charley Lutz, while Fred Heckel will be moved back to guard alongside of Captain Lupien. As usual, Homer Peabody will get the starting call at center. For the Blue and White, who are now sporting a new zone defense, Albie Meyers and Jack Naylor will be at the forward slots with big Vad Medvedeff at center. Captain Tom Macioce and Ed Anderson will be in the backcourt...
Last week part of the treasure crossed the French frontier in the ragged pockets and worn suitcases of officers and men of the rear-guard brigade commanded by General Enrique Lister. But the great and incalculably valuable bulk of it was either hidden beneath rocks and trees in the Spanish Pyrenees-where it will be searched for until Kingdom Come-or had been blown to Kingdom Come in the courtyard of Figueras Castle...
...scheduled to begin that evening. By then, corridors and chambers near the Sistine Chapel (where the balloting takes place) would be bricked up, so that the only access to the conclave would be one doorway. Over that entrance the head of Rome's noble Chigi family would stand guard-Prince Ludovico Chigi Albani della Rovere, hereditary Marshal of the Holy Roman Church. The Marshal would carry in a red velvet satchel two keys to the door, open it only after consultation with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli within...
Jitterbug Sam White at guard turned in another nice game offensively, collecting seven points. Lack of scoring punch in the back court has been a Crimson weakness all year, but in recent games Sam has provided a partial solution to the problem...