Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What the hell, it was too hot for football, anyway. Hour exams, tutorial, and that fourth course he hadn't sampled yet needed attention. You, that was it. He would curl up with a little cool beer and a book this afternoon. Vag chuckled at the thought of a B- or two in November to throw at his family. Then he noticed the three couples ahead of him, and the guy across the street with the familiar packages under his arm. He remembered something about a party "after the game." Vag, the student, was left in a phone booth...
Charlottesville, a university town of very old traditions and very new football talent, hadn't had such a time since Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed a line and laid the foundation for a permanent sectional psychoses...
...morning last week, the American Overseas Airlines dispatcher at LaGuardia Field telephoned Ferry Pilot Captain John Taylor at his home. Taylor had been alerted 72 hours before to pick up Washington passengers for a flight to Germany, but hadn't shown up. "Where the hell are you," said the dispatcher. Said Captain Taylor sleepily: "You better call Flushing 3-0163." The dispatcher dialed the number, found himself talking to the A.F.L. Air Line Pilots Association. Said the union: "There's a strike...
They ran into a mud wall with the play they had chosen--Gerhardi's "I Was a King in Babylon." The Dramatic Club didn't exactly tear down the goal-posts with its fig-leaved presentation of "Adam the Creator," either, but the competition hadn't really begun in those early days--the two groups even offered each other helpful hints from time to time. It wasn't until the heady aroma of "Saint Joan" began to fill the local columns and airwaves that the HD worries began...
...mates who first came round. One or two of his fellow Dodgers began to say "Hello" to him in the locker room. Jackie wrote to his high-school baseball coach: "It isn't too tough on me. I have played with white boys all my life. But they hadn't played with a Negro before, and it sure was rough on some of them." Soon he was invited to play cards on trips, but though he didn't like the deuces-wild type of poker the boys played, he joined in a few games of hearts...