Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Howes of Dunster started off slowly against Jerry Shocker of Dudley in the 155-lb. division, and then scored a knockdown near the end of the last round to take the decision. Winthrop's Norm Wyner staggered precision-boxing Karl Purnell three times in the 145-lb. event with powerful left jabs and windmilling rights to win a decision...
...spring of 1916, Archibald T. (Doc) Davison '06 was conducting a joint rehearsal of the Harvard glee Club and Radcliffe choral Society. After the two groups had finished singing Brahms' "Song of destiny" and the Bach motet, "I Wrestle and Pray," Davison triumphantly pulled open the stage curtains revealing Karl Mack, the awesome conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Muck, delighted with the performance, invited the groups to sing the pieces with the orchestra at the 1917 Pension Concert in Symphony Hall...
...born in a hut in the primitive village of Strelkovka, not very far from Moscow. As a youth he was a furrier's apprentice, but in 1915 he joined the Novgorod Dragoons and won at least two Czarist decorations for bravery before he had read a line of Karl Marx. Came the Revolution, and Zhukov, a veteran cavalryman, joined 1) the Red Guard, and 2) the Communist Party. Commanding a cavalry division, he won the notice of its political commissar: J. V. Stalin...
...irrigation and reservoir system built by the FOA at a cost of $500,000 in the days when U.S. Intelligence officers were using an island-wide loudspeaker system to assure the islanders that the Tachens were "the bastion of Formosa" and "the steppingstones to the mainland." Said U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin, who waded ashore in a pin-striped suit: "A tragic moment. This is only one chapter, not the end of the book...
...audiences will find something real, if not very realistic, in just such a setup. They can't help feeling like a truly captive audience, can't help identification with the Billiards-father and mother (well played by Karl Maiden and Nancy Coleman), daughter and son. And this sense of normal life suddenly swimming in nightmare lends a special piquancy to an otherwise movielike chronicle of thrills...