Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astounded U.S. officials reflected that neither Hill nor Jones could speak a word of Czech, probably wouldn't know a military secret from a comic book, and had blundered across the border without entry papers; it seemed almost certain that the Czechs were simply using them as a way of getting even. Since the first of the year, a U.S. military commission at Munich had sentenced a series of Czech spies to long prison terms...
...crossing the border, and were being held in jail behind the Iron Curtain. U.S. officials were refused the right to visit them. The U.S. embassy at Prague protested repeatedly, and its protests were either ignored or evaded. Three months went by before the Czech government made a terse announcement: Hill and Jones were being held for espionage. Last week the Czechs broke their silence again with an even more chilling report. The pair had been secretly tried as spies, had been sentenced to long terms at hard labor-ten years for Jones, twelve years for Hill...
...Braves uniform for a while. But it wasn't until he joined the Navy that he learned some of the fine points. Says he: "If I made a bad pitch, it wasn't a threat to my bread & butter. So I went out there [with the Chapel Hill preflight team] and practiced the things I had learned in '42. I discovered that real value of the change of pace, and I was amazed at first how completely it fooled the hitters...
...unrestrainedly by a smooth; curavacious, perfectly inflated, and fast moving Schwin bicycle. The only hitch, announced Harvard Outing Club president William Siddall '50, last night, is that the lucky student will have to get there by bicycle in a 10 1/2 mile racing starting at the intersection of Chestnut Hill Ave. and the Worcester Turnpike...
...Chapel Hill, in drenching rain, Harvard's best man scored a 76 while North Carolina's worst man made a 75. Their best player finished the 18 holes with...