Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ever since the end of World War II the situation on the Franco-Swiss border has been touchy. Last week it was downright itchy. Over the long-distance telephone from the Swiss frontier station of Le Locle came the stationmaster's voice, cold and hollow. "French fleas," it said, "are infiltrating our border in the clothing of French railroad workers. It is a veritable invasion...
...starting lineup: Rank Toepka, le; Bob Stargle, it; John Wober, lg; Buddy Lemay, c; John Nichols, rg; Dick Heidtman, rt; Stan Britton, re; Gill O'Neill, gb; Hardy Cox, lh; Pete Dillingham, rh; Jerry Blitz...
Hank Teepka, le; Hob Stargle, lt; Dick Heidtman, lg; Buddy Lemay, c; George Batchelder or John Weber, rg; John Nichols, rt; Stan Britton, re; Gill O'Neil, qb; Hardy Cox, lh; John Ederer, rh; Paul Dillingham...
...sentiment of the last was appropriate. It was the way the students felt when the ships unloaded them in London, Amsterdam, or Le Havre. Everything was strange. They were no longer just individuals, to be judged on their own merits. To the cold eye of the people in the street, they were first and foremost specimen Americans...
...Hollywood's wildcatters had been so lucky. Directors John Huston and Mervyn Le Roy, and Actor Dennis O'Keefe and several oilmen recently sank $194,000 into a 10,500-ft. dry well near Inglewood, Calif. Even those who had made strikes would not necessarily turn them into profits; they still had the problem of operating the well and marketing the oil. As one California oilman put it: "I can give you an oil well which is actually producing a good amount of oil, and bet you'll go broke if you don't know what...