Word: matchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing first doubles, Weld and Bowditch had a tight match with Brechner and Anderson, winning by 6-4, 3-6, 8-6. Behind 1-3 in the deciding set, the Crimson pair won three straight games and, with both their powerful services clicking beautifully, held on to break Brechner's service in the fourteenth game for the match...
...advocates of middle-of-the-road mildness, but crusty John McClellan's half-defeated thrust to put some bite into the bill left a mark of realism on the measure-a sign that the U.S. is starting to demand from organized labor responsibilities to match the rights and privileges hard...
...building Macmillan up, even such ordinarily responsible papers as the Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous "popular" press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev at a summer summit conference...
...submarine service is a most unusual [human] laboratory," concluded Captain Alvis, "a progressive series of valid limited objectives leading toward the ultimate goal of an honored retired citizen with a fairly adequate income for life." For mental health, few landlubbers can match such conditions: hard work among good men, well done and well appreciated...
...hopes to return to Spain and fight as a full-fledged matador by next Easter. Sidney Franklin is convinced that his young charge is going to be great. Says he: "Nobody in Mexico has his style and manner in killing. And only one-Antonio Ordóñez-can match him in Spain...