Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur's father, a keen Australian cricketer with flowing blond mustaches, walked out on his team during an England v. Australia Test Match to attend the birth of his son in 1895. Arthur was born in Brisbane, but grew up and was educated in New Zealand, prefers to be known as a New Zealander. "Lloyd George," he says, "is known as a Welshman, yet he was born in Manchester." Coningham's odd nickname, "Mary," is a corruption of Maori, which means a New Zealand aborigine. In the service of a country whose red-blooded he-men are often...
...Germans were bent on holding if they could. Through both cities the Arno flowed between masonry banks, making it a perfect tank trap and barrier to infantry. The Allies held the south bank, the Germans the north. So the war in Italy became a peculiar kind of delicate slugging match among the museums, with world-famous art in no man's land...
...Willner, 'Moe Levin, Henry Moulton, Bob Rayle, and Tow Ellis will play the first five singles, while coach Douropulos has not yet decided between Bob Mayleas and Frank Rinaldi for the sixth spot. The netmen won their first match this summer, with Brows, by the score...
Unloading the Detail. The 89 pages given over to wartime Washington are a brief masterpiece of social reporting. No U.S. writer can match Dos Passos' use of the hackneyed, senseless, stupefying jargon of political insincerity. Nor is any other writer so quick to detect the process by which ideas harden into cliches, stock answers, pat remarks as offensive as the slamming of a door...
...29th Division: Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt, 49, West Pointer, cavalryman, son of a U.S. general; an expert marksman who once challenged any man in the division to a shooting match with rifle or pistol for a $2 side...