Word: lined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drill night last week, 50 white-helmeted MPs came roaring onto the Capitol grounds in a line of bouncing, skidding jeeps. Luckily for all concerned, Congress had gone home for the day. Most of the guardsmen ran off into the bushes with waving pistols and carbines, yelling "Take cover!" But a few drivers kept their jeeps snarling in circles. Other MPs ran to the Capitol steps and set up a light machine...
...mills had been enough to hobble the huge U.S. auto industry. Ford Motor Co. prepared to halt production and lay off most of its 115,000 workers by mid-November. Packard worked on halftime. Layoffs would pull most of Chrysler's 86,000 employees off the line within two weeks. General Motors had cut down to a four-day week at some plants...
...should be remembered that yesterday's Crimson eleven was one that hadn't been playing together very long. The first string line had not started as a unit since the Stanford opener, and fullback Johnny West only began working with the Henry-Moffle-Roche combination last Monday...
...tries at the center of the burly Cross line. West moved the ball to the three and on the next play he drove over. Charlie Walsh's conversion attempt was not good, his second miss of the season...
Harvard opened the scoring a fullback Jerry Blits, running spark of the squad, crossed the goal line on a seven yard plunge. Kierstead made it seven points, but the Dartmouth yearlings came right back with a 70 yard drive to score at the beginning of the second period...