Word: loads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Junior Varsity under stroked the Lions from the start, and stayed about a half length behind them, until the half-way mark. Then the Columbia boat foundered in rough water and the jayvees moved half a length ahead, a load they held through the finish...
Varsity coach Jack Barnaby is taking 12 men with him for the 3 p.m. Springfield match in the hope that his six singles players will build up a large enough load to let him use extra men in the doubles...
...Sack boarded the prisoner ship--an LST--at Cheju Island. It was enroute to Pusan, Korea, with a load of Chinese Communists bound for repatriation. As the prisoners filed off the ship at Pusan, military police spotted Sack and detained him for violating a "no press allowed...
...crew of a sambuk marooned a load of pilgrims on an uninhabited island near the Eritrean coast, telling them they were in the Holy Land. Most of the pilgrims died of thirst, but a few lived to identify the sambuk crew, who were hanged. Last year a Saudi Arabian patrol found another party of pilgrims, 18 of them dead of thirst, who had been dumped on a lonely shore and told to walk in the wrong direction. None of this was known to 32 innocent Nigerians who had spent two years walking from the west coast of Africa, across deserts...
...Plainfield, Ind., Farmer Raymond Heald got fed up with townspeople throwing beer bottles, tin cans and garbage in his fields, "gave them back what they'd been giving me" by dumping a load of garbage in front of the town hall, was acquitted of committing a misdemeanor by a jury which included eight farmers...