Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Play. Skipping the obvious fact that the British are as yet no match for the Germans in man power or machine power, the job in Cairo had turned out to be too big for one man. It had comprised Q and O and lots of things the Army had no letters for. The new setup provided that General Auchinleck should concentrate fairly narrowly on military problems and action...
...sportswriter (the late W. O. McGeehan) used to call it "the manly art of modified murder." And modified murder was what this particular boxing match looked like. In Manhattan's Polo Grounds 27-year-old Fritzie Zivic, world's welterweight champion, met 21-year-old Abraham Davidoff, U.S. Army private known in the ring as, Al ("Bummy") Davis, in about that was bloodier than a bullfight...
...argument: "Once Hitler's opponents can match plane for plane and the various other weapons that are used under cover of darkness, Hitler's inferior and lightly pigmented night operators will be no match for the sharpshooting British and other more deeply pigmented peoples." Snorted the New York Herald Tribune : "Pigments of the imagination...
Compared to the razzle-dazzle, full-blast Russo-German world series. General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Syrian campaign last week seemed like a bland rural cricket match with luncheon intervals and time out for tea. But with Damascus fallen, Beirut tottering, Palmyra (Tadmor) encircled and a drive on for the important road junctions and airport at Horns, it looked as though the match would soon be won by Sir Henry's British-Free French team...
...could always lick him on a ball field and I can lick him on a golf course now." "Okay," Babe wired, "if you want to come here and get your brains knocked out, come on." Last week Cobb came. Golf Promoter Fred Corcoran had arranged two 18-hole matches (one in Boston, one in New York) for charity. To see the two southpaws with strange bats in their hands, 2,000 folks turned out at Boston's Commonwealth Country Club. They saw no heckling match: it was much too serious for that. The Babe...