Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opponents prove to be tough, Haines will have one big factor in his favor. Half of the past two seasons' winning eight is still intact, and yet another of last year's boatmen will be back, thus leaving only three new oarsmen in the first shell. Main question mark is at stroke, where Jack Smith will be making his debut tomorrow. Though he worked for the yearling crew last spring, Smith is new to the stern slide. If he looks at home in his new position tomorrow, most of Haines' worries will be over...
...White's main contribution to College politics, however, is as president of HYD. This organization, whose parent national body was founded at the same convention which disbanded the young Communist League, is, by White's definition, "The only true Liberal force at Harvard." Its principles are labor, minority, and civil rights support, support of youth and student needs (guarding of academic freedom and fighting against discrimination), support of Big Three unity and the end of imperialistic U. S. foreign policy, and, most important, support of Wallace and foundation of a permanent third party in this country...
...World War II, Kalavryta came to be known as the "Lidice of Greece." The Germans, angered by Partisan resistance, marched in during the winter of 1943 and summoned the entire population (about 2,000) to the main square. The men were led away and machine-gunned. Under the heaps of dead, eleven survived. The women & children were locked in a schoolhouse which, along with the rest of Kalavryta, was put to the torch. A horror-stricken Austrian soldier unbolted the schoolhouse door and some women escaped...
Last Sunday, while the Italians were voting, the Paris comrades were summoned to the Stade Buffalo, a sports stadium, to hear Maurice Thorez. To 25,000 of the faithful, Thorez announced the new line-"la main tendue" (the outstretched hand). Said he: "The party extends a fraternal hand ... to all democrats, to all socialists who do not wish to be the pawns of American millionaires, to all Catholics sincerely devoted to progress and freedom, to all men of the Resistance...
Under baseball rules, a pitcher may not bandage his digits, but if the opposing team waives the rule, the prohibition need not be final. A waiver from Jack Barry, the Crusader coach, therefore stands as Samborski's main hope. Should Barry decline, and the skies stay clear, it may look like batting practice at Worcester...