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Word: mats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cook completely outclassed Amherst's Spencer Bloch, winning the decision 3 to 0, on an escape and a near-fall. Cook almost pinned Bloch at the edge of the mat, but the outside mat slipped, preventing him from getting the necessary everage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Outclass Amherst | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...also had the welcome mat out for old, if recently estranged, friends. A Washington caller last week: French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, paving the way for a possible call by Premier Guy Mollet. England's Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS) was also prepared to visit, was assured a warmer welcome than could have been possible for Anthony Eden. And at week's end came hints of a caller whose appearance would do more for the Western alliance than a regiment of bustling, brief-cased statesmen. To Britain's Queen Elizabeth went overtures for a state visit, possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Visiting List | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...addition, he did not credit Gilmor with a takedown which he had made at the edge of the mat. These two points would have made the difference, for in the final period, Gilmor was forced to let his opponent escape in order to gain a takedown...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Track Team Defeats Dartmouth; Quintet, Wrestlers Lose | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Godot, the event the expectation of which has enabled more than a few of us to take that next step through this winter's slush. Pozzo and the rest of Beckett's boys played by an all-Negro cast. Tonight is the second of ten, at the Shubert. (Mat. on Sattidy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

...Christmas holiday in Andau's refugee camp. Men, women and children slept in utter exhaustion on straw pallets. A middle-aged woman awoke with a start, already weeping. She stared around in hysterical terror. Near her, a young man gazed emptily at the ceiling, suddenly leaped from his mat, clutched a filthy rag to his mouth and ran for the door, vomiting as he went. A little girl danced happily around the room, holding a tattered rag doll to her breast, then sat down on the dirty floor and cried soundlessly, helplessly in the shocking, numbing discovery that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Face of America | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

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