Word: guerra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, kindly father Hutchins became president of Kentucky's Berea College, but by that time young Robert had gone on to Yale. In 1917 he had joined the Army ("The manual of arms is not a great book"), won the Italian Croce di Guerra for being "poisoned by a can of sardines," then enrolled in the Yale Law School ("No case book is a great book"). At 24 he was secretary of Yale University, at 26 a lecturer at Yale Law School, at 28 a full professor and dean...
...last summer, Newcombe got mad one day and went home to Elizabeth, N.J. to brood. Before the week was out, he telephoned Business Manager Buzzy Bavasi and asked humbly: "Will you take a damn fool back?" Last spring, at Vero Beach, Fla. Newcombe took a punch at Catcher Fermin Guerra of the Philadelphia A's, with whom he had trouble in the Cuban League last winter. Says Teammate Robinson, referring both to Newcombe's pitching and behavior: "He's smarter...
...stalk of cane. He spat out a wad, and with it his requiescat on the Caribbean Legion: "That damned legion is out of action, anyway. They couldn't get any more dough from Tio Pepe [Uncle Joe] Stalin, I guess . . . That Costa Rican business was just a guerra de galleticas [cookie war] to keep [President] Figueres [of Costa Rica] in power...
...rest of the program includes an informal dance from 9 to 1 o'clock tonight in Memorial Hall to the music of Fred Guerra and 13 stalwarts, a formal tomorrow in the Union with the musical assistance of Larry Green and Skip Towne and their orchestras, and a Band Concert Sunday afternoon. Yard room permission has been extended both nights until the dances begin...
Methodist Bishop Eleazar Guerra appealed for tolerance. Mexico's tiny Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez calmly declared: "Protestant activities do not interest the Catholic Church." And peace was restored for a while...