Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best farmland with the help of laws dedicated to "extending the French presence," and allowing French farmers to pay 20% less tax than a Moroccan. They displaced the Moroccan administrators. They dug mines, made Morocco the world's second in production of phosphate, fifth in manganese, seventh in lead. They built roads and railroads, power plants and dams, constructed ports (Casablanca handles more tonnage than Marseille). They built 133 hospitals, at one time boasted they were opening a school a day. But the roads mostly went to French farms or French factories, the schools were chiefly for French children...
Mystery event for the Crimson is the discus, which may prove one of the varsity's most powerful. Tony Gianelly, Neil Muncaster, and Hal Anderson lead the field...
After giving up a somewhat tainted home run to the lead-off batter, a line drive on which right fielder Matt Botsford missed making a shoestring catch, Crimson hurler Bob McGinnis held Boston University scoreless the rest of the route as Harvard went on to win the contest...
...expressed the hope that increased contact between Western and Iron Curtain countries on the student level might eventually lead to greater international cooperation since people of "our age group are the leaders of tomorrow...
Luckily there are redeeming graces later in the collection. The few splendidly worked-out bits of the macabre, however, are too often marred by overexplicit final comments on them. Situations whose full explanations have already been slyly suggested are left with less impact by authors afraid to lead the reader to finish the thought. Overexplaining away the power of a haunting ending is a drawback in, among others, Philip MacDonald, who tediously overends his tale of a brutal murderer's being saved by murder. Perhaps TV would always demand a soothing or at least carefully explicit ending; books...