Word: lees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been at its first meeting in London, early this year. It now faced the chronic and perhaps more serious crisis of paralysis through the stubborn inflexibility of its component parts. To stave off U.N.'s slow death by deadlock, many people looked to Trygve Halvdan Lie (pronounced Lee), the U.N.'s Secretary-General, its chief administrative officer, the man who stood closer than any other single individual to U.N.'s mechanism, if not to its heart...
...head of the Army's Air Transport Command, Lieut. General Harold Lee George organized and ran an airline which was bigger (3,700 planes) than all the rest of the world's airlines combined. Last week he took a new job: board chairman and president of Peruvian International Airways, which has only five surplus planes, has not yet started operating...
That was the year of Captain Joe Gardella, Franny Lee, and Charley Spreyer, when the blossoming line which featured Chub Peabody, Loren MacKinney, Dick Pfister, Tom Gardiner, and Vern Miller was coming into its own. Remnants of the class of 1945--and there are many--will be eager to relate the 14 to 0 pasting handed the Bulldogs in 1941, when Peabody, later to be named on everybody's All-America list, played the entire game with charley-horses in both legs, and still was the bulwark of the Crimson forward wall...
...still plenty of Democratic celebrants. Ol' Gene Talmadge was back in the saddle in Georgia. Big Jim Folsom took over in Alabama. Cattleman Roy Turner won in Oklahoma and Publisher-Banker William P. Lane in Maryland. The biggest surprise victor was Colorado's twangy Chief Justice William Lee Knous, who ousted a do-nothing Republican administration...
...held in respect the progress of self-realization. ..." The authors esteem Robinson's verse, which they consider as good as Thomas Hardy's, and Robert Frost's "Horatian serenity," as much as Ezra Pound & Co. and the Midwestern awakenings of Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters...