Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fleet Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey, 67, had a cataract removed from his left eye at Johns Hopkins Hospital. But a similar operation on his other eye, onetime Fullback Halsey decided, would have to wait until after the Army-Navy game...
...Gladys left Liverpool Street carrying a bedroll, a kettle and saucepan, a suitcase of canned food, ninepence in cash and a thin packet of travelers' checks. Said she to her mother & father: "Never get me out or pay ransom for me. God is sufficient...
...trouble with the South, said Alabama's New Dealing Aubrey Williams in 1947, was that most of its brains and talent went North. That, he added modestly, included himself. By faithfully serving Franklin D. Roosevelt in the left wing of the New Deal, Williams had risen high in the WPA, was National Youth Administrator for five years. But in 1945, when the Senate rejected his nomination as Rural Electrification Administrator because of his leftish views, his northern political star blinked out. Williams packed up his talents and headed south again...
...desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon system for the first time and made 23 first downs to Army's ten. But Army, an old hand at two-platooning, squeaked by, 14-13. Hay in the Barn. Apart from the big four, the only team of any stature left that was still unbeaten was Virginia. In 192-lb. Johnny Papit, Virginia had a powerful, swivel-hipped fullback who was as good as they come (his coach rates him better than the great Bill Dudley, Virginia's wonder boy of nearly a decade ago), but in topflight 1949 football...
...estate, which holds 95,321 shares (55.2% of the voting stock) for her grandchildren, who will eventually divide it. On these holdings, the estate got $428,944. In addition, dividends of $1,287,445 went to the estate on the 286,099 shares of non-voting stock left to the taxexempt, non-profit Ford Foundation...