Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they fought was a savage succession of small actions, of blundering encounters around bends in the jungle paths, of ambushes, surprise dawn attacks, endless forced marches. More than by Japanese bullets, the Marauders were brought low by mite-borne typhus, malaria, amoebic dysentery, fatigue and mental breakdowns. A battalion of Marauders, after seven weeks of marching through mountains, mud and water, was surrounded at Nhpum Ga; most of the survivors were red-eyed, hollow-cheeked, scarcely functioning by the time the siege was lifted...
...wind blew down the course throughout the regatta, kicking up rough, lumpy waves which made lining the crews up for the start difficult and cut the times low. Fastest time of the day was posted by the J.V.'s at 7:22 over the mile and five-sixteenths Henley distance. Last week the varsity twice rowed the course under...
...open water on Cornell at the Mass. Ave. bridge when the Big Red started to make its move three-quarters of a mile from the finish. All it was able to do, however, was leave Tech further behind as the Crimson eight stayed ahead while keeping to its low stroke...
Landau came back to defeat Roesler in the low hurdles, but it was left for Gordon to climax the meet. After a succession of good Army legs and poor Crimson stick passes had given the Cadets what looked like a secure 12-yard lead, Gordon overhauled Grant Schaefer in another stirring finish for the Crimson's final five points...
...conception of comedy as presented here is generally quite low, resting on the two assumptions that all discomfort is a source of humor, and that any action can be made funny if it is repeated often enough. The best examples are the more subtle representations of these simple precepts: a woman walking away from having sat on a pie, not knowing that it was a pie; or the mass exposure of unfaithful husbands...