Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munro's new lineup worked out perfectly. Hedreen, of course, was instrumental in the triumph with his scoring and play-making at center. Sweeney gave the varsity the hard-charging inside it needed to team with scrappy John Mudd, and Ekpebu, at his old haunt, left wing, dazzled the Quakers with his dribbling and speed afoot...
...audience's aching desire for brevity and a spark of humanity. Democrat Kennedy supplied it by throwing away most of his text, giving Republican Rockefeller a string of verbal hotfoots, then swiftly wrapping up Rocky's own point: the U.S. needs leadership to "tell the people the hard facts of existence that face us." All told, the deceptively boyish Kennedy drew ten rounds of applause in nine minutes, a rout which lent poignant irony to Rocky's smiling remark, made to a friend as he surveyed the influential crowd before dinner: "I'm just a sand...
...Like 74 "flying fraeu-leins" who arrived by chartered plane a few days earlier, they were marriageable girls brought in from West Germany by the Australian government at the demand of members of a powerful new Australian pressure group: bachelors, among the thousands of European immigrants, who have a hard time finding someone to marry in a sparsely settled land where men still outnumber women...
...most of his life Stefan Bandera was an angry, fanatic outcast, dedicated to a lost cause. His cause was Ukrainian independence, and so hard did Bandera struggle for it that Soviet propaganda refers to all members of the Ukrainian underground as "Banderovtsy." The son of a Ukrainian Catholic priest, Stefan joined the Ukrainian underground in high school, and knew no other occupation. In 1934, when Bandera was sentenced to death for the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronislav Pieracki (for Ukrainians regarded both Poles and Russians as usurpers), the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, presumably to prevent a Ukrainian...
With an ever ready supply of hard cash, Tangier's wily Indian merchants could buy in the world's cheapest markets, reexport to the most expensive. Sometimes the transactions were legal, often they were not. In recent years the smugglers alone have been netting about $100 million in sales. Biggest customer: Franco's Spain, whose fumbling economy is supplied with vital products by Tangier's smugglers...