Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some dock operators fought hard against the settlement, finally gave in at the insistence of the hard-hit Matson Navigation Co. (with 18 freighters and the luxury liner Lurline immobilized) and sugar planters (plagued by $61 million worth of raw sugar piled up in the islands). The strike had cost the islands an estimated $100 million loss in business and wages. Even with the settlement accepted by both sides, Hawaiians had to wait a while before normal shipping was resumed: the union insisted on clearing up some fringe issues before letting its stevedores go back to work...
...University and became a U.S. citizen. He was a top man on the team that put the first chain-reacting pile to work in Chicago in 1942. Last week he prescribed energy and vigilance as antidotes for panic: "American supremacy is predictable up to 20 years if we work hard. As for me, I expect to sleep as well as my insomnia permits. I'm a fatalist by nature, anyway...
...tour through the villages not long ago, Nehru was supoosed to unfurl the national tricolor at a public meeting. Something went wrong with the pulley, and the flag would not unfurl. The Prime Minister tugged hard, waxing more & more furious. He summoned the organizer of the meeting, a sheepish-looking yokel. "Can't this village even fly the nation's flag efficiently?" Nehru railed. "I will wait here until I am able to unfurl the flag on that mast." He did, and missed lunch in the process. But at last the pulley was repaired and the flag unfurled...
Nothing outside of aimless midfield volley went on during the second quarter, but at 6:45 of the third period Goldstein gave Harvard a 3 to 0 lead wish a hard shot from 20 feet out. His pass came from inside right Jon Spivak...
Newcomers to the lineup are Dick Heidtman at left guard and hard and fast-running Paul Dillingham at fullback. Dillingham scored one of the touchdowns against Andover...