Word: macadam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fierce punch. Israeli Shermans and AMXs ran into a strong battalion of Egyptian armor, veered away from it while Israeli infantry moved to the attack. Overhead, Israeli Mysteres spotted a major reinforcing column (it apparently was a full corps of up to 50,000 men) lumbering eastward along the macadam road from Ismailia. Egyptian Vampires and MIGs came in to cover the reinforcements, fell into battle with Israeli fighters. By late in the day, it was still a battle. The Egyptians were fighting with more skill and courage than in the 1948 fiasco. Then came the ultimatum from Britain...
Margaret R. Antonelli '57 was elected vice-president. Other new officers are Meredith A. MacAdam '58, secretary, Nina S. Dimmitt '58, assistant secretary, Susan Olsen '58, treasurer, Lynn V. Moorhead '58, assistant treasurer, Elizabeth B. Borden '59, National Student Association alternate, and Jean L. Anderson '59, electoral chairman...
...races were run on a one-third macadam, two-thirds grass course which encircles the Franklin Park golf course. Several times during the meet McCurdy would hurry across the green to strategic points, where he advised his charges of their position, urging some on, and advising others to hold their places...
Teacher in a Hurry. Half an hour before the race, runners, trying to warm up in the rain, began to jog toward the starting line on the hill where the wet macadam of Highway 135 reaches toward Boston. The starter's gun barked at the stroke of noon. "Look at those guys," said a newsman astonished by the first scrambling sprint for position. "They've got million-dollar legs and five-cent heads." But by the time the field reached the first check point in Framingham, the tangle had unwound. The nickel noggins had dropped back; a Staten...
Seventy-seven marathoners scrambled over macadam hills and cobble-stone dales Saturday afternoon in the Brighton Board of trade road race, the first of three shake-down competitions before the Patriot's Day Boston Marathon on April...