Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange assembly that the eight representatives of the great powers (two from each nation) look down upon. The women match the men in the shabbiness of their dress; there isn't a firm trouser crease or an even hemline. There is only a hushed attentiveness, as their eyes move studyingly from the speaker to the faces of their conquerors of three years ago. Occasionally, there sounds the discreet rustle of wax paper as a representative of the people unwraps his brown bread sandwich, neatly folds the paper and tucks it back in his pocket for future use. The linoleum...
...give-away craze, fired by Miss Hush and the Walking Man, reached white heat. Last week's prizes ranged from a burnt match to a "new future" (a completely furnished three-bedroom house in San Fernando Valley, a Kaiser and a choice of jobs). One program, Mutual's Queen for a Day, bragged that it had given away $1,117,000 in three years. With the pile of prizes mounting at every flick of the dial, networkers were not certain just how much was being offered, but guessed that last week's kitty amounted to about...
Crimson golfers walked away victoriously from the eighteenth hole in yesterday's match with Boston College, but it was all due to the final putt that Sam Seagar sank on the last green...
...Hampshire is the chief exponent in these parts of the "if you can't trick him, club him" style of game, and today's match promises to be the roughest the Varsity will have to face all season...
Despite violent New Hampshire checking and stick swinging, last year's Crimson pounded out a 10-2 win. The Wildcats have not improved spectacularly since 1947, and the Varsity will take the field favored to win their first league match...