Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suitable Match. Outside the Stadium entrances, in the long perambulatory corridor, the cardboard placards mounted on poles (a blown-up Dewey photograph; Dewey the People's Choice; Dewey Witt Win) were piled in chin-high clumps. They were the same nononsense, black-lettered placards which had decorated the sober-looking Dewey headquarters at the Stevens Hotel for two days. Delegates who had visited the businesslike headquarters to look in awe at the machinelike efficiency of the Dewey staff had already seen them...
...Slugging Match. Key to the battle was Caen itself, a historic Norman town of primitive Gothic churches (see ART) and thick-walled stone buildings. The first British drive had carried to the town's outskirts; then it was hurled back. The battle settled down to a slugging match between the British Second Army and a German army, apparently the Seventh. Best break for the Allies was that the enemy never collected enough armor for a solid breakthrough attack. He committed his tanks piecemeal until four Panzer divisions were engaged in the fighting...
...Tank Match. Now, even before Cherbourg's port was restored, the Allied armies had enough power piled up to begin an offensive in the Second Army's sector. They drove head-on into the Germans. British and Canadian infantry, following up the tanks, pushed their lines forward until Caen was encircled on three sides and the highways and railroads to the north and southwest of the city were...
...with him." When he veered toward liberalism, the left-wing needle trades union called him "a deserter." "This wounded his moral self-esteem," and he resigned in "disgust with the whole mess." Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the I.L.G.W.U. Born in Lithuania, Schlesinger began his U.S. life as a boy match peddler in the Chicago slums. "The really dominant emotional undertone in Schlesinger's long career was a deep, almost fierce devotion to this country and its democratic institutions." For him "America was liberty." Later, in the I.L.G.W.U. 's long civil war of right wing v. left wing, Schlesinger...
Hemmed in by the war to a field which he clearly dominates, Grand Master Botvinnik is itching to get back into international competition. Last week he hailed with delight a U.S. Chess Review proposal for a radio match between the ten best U.S. chessmen and Russia's best ten. Said the Grand Master: "I think it will . . . strengthen the cultural relations between the United Nations...