Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howie Schless' debut as freshman wrestling coach came off without a hitch as his team won its first match of the season against M.I.T.'s freshmen by a comfortable margin of 26 to 8 in the Indoor Athletic Building just before the Varsity meet...
...mental sweat. While his boss, Secretary of State George Marshall, stuck it out in London, Dulles went to Paris to take a look at France's battle against the Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). In London, the Foreign Ministers were still hammer-locked in a weary, heavy-breathing propaganda match. Day after day, Vyacheslav Molotov untiringly obstructed any specific action on the peace treaties for Germany and Austria; at the same time he spent hours denouncing the U.S. for sabotaging the peace...
...holds some powerful cards. His own opposition National Democratic Union Party sees him as a natural; President Dutra and the government respect his work at U.N. But talkative Aranha cagily refuses to say a word about the presidency. "It is like being advertised as the star of a football match," he says warily. "You may be destroyed before the end of the game...
...photographer said, "Give us a big smile, Joe," Louis managed a wry grimace. "C'mon, Joe," somebody shouted, "you can smile bigger than that." Answered Joe in a low voice: "I can't open my mouth no more." Wasn't Walcott entitled to a return match? He certainly was, said...
...sprig of the gentry" because he was the parson's son. To be set apart from the other boys was an agony to him; he suffered many a whipping rather than wear an overcoat, the badge of a "gentleman." Once, after he had won a wrestling match, his opponent said: "Yes, if I got broth to eat twice a week as you do, I should be as strong as you are." From then on, Albert's broth tasted flat. And as he grew up to find that he was favored among men in more than broth and overcoats...