Word: los
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blunder. The minute the decision was announced, the government, watching carefully, sensed a major political blunder. The season had only five weeks to go, and the 50,000 members of the league-leading "Racing" club were furious. So were backers of the second-place "River Plate" club (nicknamed Los Millonarios because of the club's free-handed spending for players). So were the "Boca Juniors" (No. 1 fan: President Juan Perón). So was nearly everybody else...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
Oxygen and No Tennis. For the past 14 years Schoenberg has been writing his music in California. Now retired from teaching at U.C.L.A., he lives in a white-stuccoed house in Brentwood Heights, near Los Angeles...
Misreporting hit a new low on the West Coast. Los Angeles papers, with a two-hour time differential in their favor, can rush eastern returns into print before the polls on the Coast close. The temptation for pro-Dewey papers to stampede some voters aboard the bandwagon was irresistible. Cried a headline in Hearst's afternoon Herald & Express: DEWEY VICTORY SEEN AS VOTE LEAD GROWS. The fact: some small New England towns had gone for Dewey. A later headline: DEWEY SWEEPING THE COUNTRY. The tabloid Mirror was equally sly with EARLY TREND GIVES DEWEY LEAD. It was based...
Charles A. Federer of the Observatory respected that scientists in Los Angeles and Flagstaff, Arizona, saw the new comet yesterday but that Boston is too far north for the comet to come over the horizon while it is still dark enough...