Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee, in the case of high schools, does not view a tightening in the curriculum as the shield against these dangers. It suggests, indeed, "even a greater diversity than exists at present in the still largely bookish curriculum, since nothing else will match the actual range of intelligence and background among students...
Faye Emerson, cinemactress wife of Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt, chatting cozily with the New Deal-hating New York Daily News, displayed some of the birthday gifts Elliott had given her-a pearl pin encrusted with diamonds and rubies; earrings to match; a gold cigaret lighter. Her hair had been blonde, long and straight, but: "I had it cut and now it's dark and short and curly, and nearly everyone thinks that Elliott's being unfaithful...
...Moraine Country Club, bowed down by a lame back and too much golf. Then, with a sigh, he pulled himself together and hobbled 36 holes in 6 under par to tie for medal honors in the Professional Golfers' Association Championship. That still left a long row of match play to hoe, and Nelson was feeling no spryer...
...when he ran into wiry Mike Turnesa in the second round of match play, the invalid threw away his mental crutches. The veteran Turnesa was red hot. Nelson, just plain hot, was two down with four holes to go, but he was not quite ready to be counted out. Summoning his last reserve of calm (a rival pro says that if Nelson gave anyone a blood transfusion, the beneficiary would come down with pneumonia), the champ shot a birdie and took the 33rd hole. Another birdie evened the match on the 34th. An eagle 3 on the 475-yd. 35th...
Last week the U.S. Army went diligently to work to stamp out this lucrative trade. But its curative measures were no match for the economic pressure which caused it. Like most other recently liberated lands, the Philippines are in the grip of a wild inflation; stolen Army goods bring the same sky-high prices they had brought in France...