Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tucked a box of Truman's cigars under the old man's arm. Garner said, "Thank you. Thank you. These are mighty good.'' He stood, looking up, as the train began to roll away. Then he walked off, stopping once to strike a kitchen match expertly on the seat of his trousers and relight the frayed stump of his Mexican cigar...
...First's fighting men knew too well what had turned the chance for apparent quick victory into this week's slugging match around Aachen. For one thing, bad weather, as it often had before, tied down the potent hand of Allied air power. But more importantly it was the thinning of the supply stream as the Allied armies moved farther from their coastal bases...
...Steel. Japan's war lords know that their upstart industry and slave labor cannot hope to match Allied production. But the war lords are pinning their forlorn hopes on other factors to save them, for years to come: 1) Russian neutrality; 2) geography, which lengthens Allied sup ply lines as it shortens Japan's; 3) stock piles of vital raw materials, high enough to last up to two years; 4) Allied war weariness, and revulsion against casualties heavier than in Europe...
Junior officers are cordially invited. Preliminary plans included a date bureau with the various girls schools. Wags commenting on the dance in the Lucky Bag say that "a portable bar with bar-keepers to match has been secured to meet all demands in any quantity this time...
...first debate is scheduled for November 11, the first Saturday of the new term. Williams College will come to Cambridge to debate on the question of permanent federal union after the war in the return match in a home-and-home series, the first round of which was won by Harvard on September 16 in Williamstown...