Word: mat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time, all the headliners were sore. They went to the mat with May. When May threatened to "call the whole thing off," the big shots decided to carry on-most of them flaunting their numbers defiantly on the backs of their pants. After the racket subsided, the tournament settled down to a one-man show-starring Defending Champion Byron Nelson...
Substitutes In. Rommel's time out had permitted The Auk to rush up fresh reserves of men and matériel from Suez, Palestine, Syria and the rest of the Middle East. But the amount he could bring up was limited by what was available in those quarters. Any major reinforcements, ordered by General Auchinleck since the situation in Egypt became acute, will have to come from Britain or the U.S. and cannot be expected for two or three months...
Mihailovich and his hardy warriors have faced not only huge odds, but also staggering tool and supply problems. Most of their arms were Yugoslav army equipment hauled hastily into the mountains before the Germans advanced beyond Belgrade. Since then a little matériel has been dropped by parachute to Mihailovich, and some smuggled into Serbia from dissident elements in the Hungarian army...
Governor Herbert Lehman of New York gave up tennis for the duration, added his tennis shoes to the family's scrap-rubber contribution. Also surrendered: the gubernatorial mansion's front door mat, a tire, a length of hose, galoshes, Mrs. Lehman's rain cape...
Died. Ernest Bramah Smith (pen name: Ernest Bramah), 74, British writer of detective fiction (The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat, Max Carrados); in Somerset, England. A popular writer for some 40 years, he managed to keep his private life so private that little was known about him except that he had once lived in China, the scene of his famed Kai Lung stories. His widow asked that the place he died in be permitted to remain unnamed...