Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those doing the legwork, it was a matter of finding and questioning a lot of people, big & little, who had the vital big & little facts. Gibbs groped through candlelit corridors buttonholing Government and opposition M.P.s, listened to the Commons debating fuel with four of the ten light clusters in the chambers symbolically turned off, and, to get the political reaction, read the 17,000 words sent in by the stringers in the stricken cities of Manchester, Sunderland, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Bradford, Blackpool...
...pound class Yardling Bob Dennison ran into a Dartmouth light-weight, saved up for the Harvard match, and was pinned in 2:24 of the third period while at 128 Jim Birney, substituting for the injured Indian captain, Bob Bach, decisioned Pete Knox...
...post-war Advocate will first see the light of day on Monday, Mach 24, just five days before the start of the spring vacation, according to an announcement made yesterday by Donald B. Watt, Jr. '47, interim editor of the magazine...
...James, by remarking that those who made and played the Franklin Roosevelt scenes "obviously loved" his father, gave what appeared to be an unofficial green light for a screen biography of the late President...
...almost unbelievable luck during the Casablanca naval battle. More 6-inch and 5-inch shells were thrown by the light cruiser Brooklyn alone than by the entire U.S. fleets against the Spanish at Manila Bay and Santiago. But at Casablanca U.S. ships suffered only five minor hits, while the French lost more than a dozen ships, sunk, missing or disabled. The Massachusetts almost took a spread of four torpedoes at once, but maneuvered between Nos. 3 & 4 of the spread, with No. 4 only 15 feet to starboard...