Word: lone
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Finally, for the lone wolf, there are always the countless local links, proving grounds for the development of a four-letter functional vocabulary...
...nearly two years Turk Westerling had been a fugitive from his own countrymen, and from the Indonesian Republic-wanted by both for homicide and other crimes committed in Indonesia after the islands won their independence from The Netherlands. A burly, moonfaced lone wolf who was born in Istanbul 32 years ago of a Dutch father and Greek mother, he served in World War II with the Australians in North Africa, and as one of Lord Mountbatten's bodyguards in Asia; he became a Moslem, twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. When the Dutch gave up their effort to hold...
Status of Man. In Geneva, Switzerland, John G. S. Beith of Great Britain, the lone male delegate at opening sessions of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, uttered not one word...
Pete Dillingham, the Crimson's lone entry, flubbed only one dive in both the one and three meter events in the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships this weekend, but that was enough to eliminate him in the preliminaries both times. Skip Browning of Texas swept both events getting 619 points in the three meters and 534.55 in the one meter to assure him top place of the Olympic prospects. Bob Kiphuth's New Haven Swim Club, composed of Yale freshmen, varsity, and alumni swimmers, won the team championship for the second year in succession...
...most unique characteristic of Truman's mind is, perhaps, that to him every man is a personality rather than a figure, whether it be Hannibal, Stalin, Marshall, Pendergast, or the lone Socialist voter in Independence, Missouri. This gives him an unusual view of history, and a useful one. Since he interprets the past with the same vigor and simplicity as the present, he converts history into almost personal experience. His special area of interest in the last few years has, of course, been the presidency. Although not all his opinions and observations are incisive, or even strictly accurate, most...