Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago she graciously offered to withdraw her occupation forces from North Korea provided the U.S. did the same in the south. In many parts of the East and elsewhere, the gesture went down as a magnanimous one. It put the U.S. on the spot. Washington could not match the Russian gesture because it knew that the Russians had fostered a puppet government in their section of Korea and backed it with a Soviet-trained and armed Korean army 100,000 strong. If the U.S. Army pulled out of South Korea, the Soviet puppets in the north could easily swallow...
...cake was brought in. Old Zvi exploded: "How dare you offer me hot coffee on a Sabbath! Have you gone mad?" Ana, trying to calm her father, led him to the kitchen and showed him the electric percolator. She explained that, since no one needed to strike a match, no religious law was being violated, but he called the percolator a wicked machine and stalked...
Percentage Player. The John Lardners and their three children winter in Greenwich Village, summer on Fire Island, two hours away. A good drinking companion and quiet, deadpan humorist, Lardner is a cautious horse player, a brilliant poker player, and master of the "match game" at Jack Bleeck's newspaper saloon...
Mother's Old Putter. In the six days of match play, many a good golfer fell by the fairwayside. Skee Riegel narrowly missed defeat in the first round by a Sunday golfer "I've never heard of before," then bowed out in the third. By the fifth round, when Willie Turnesa met Marvin ("Bud") Ward, they were the only ex-titleholders left...
...winner. Said she, loud enough for the players to hear: "Frankie's pants have perfect creases. That other guy looks like a bum." Replied Billows affably: "Lady, I've got a nicely pressed suit in my locker -and I'll wear it tomorrow in my semifinal match." Stranahan had already muffed three easy putts, let it bother him so much that he began bending his tee shots. On the 13th hole, he hooked into deep rough, was in more rough with his second shot, struck a tree with his third, and conceded hole and match after...