Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Met three times with Secretary of State Dulles to prepare for this week's discussion of international problems with Sir Anthony Eden and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd...
...also a story of NATO nations constantly falling short of constantly reduced goals. The original goal of 90 active divisions was cut by the Three Wise Men*to 50. Soon after he took command in mid-1953, Gruenther recognized that not even this goal was going to be met. In the U.S., Eisenhower shifted U.S. rearmament from a crash basis to "the long haul." In Europe, making a virtue of what was political necessity, Gruenther set up the New Approach Group to devise a new strategy for the defense of Europe, with himself as chief planner...
...performance against Middlebury was typical of its season's play. The Vermont school, known more for its skiing facilities than for potent basketball teams, came into the I.A.B. in mid-December and after 40 minutes of exceedingly dreary play, departed with a 50-46 victory. The same two teams met later the same month on an unfamiliar Colby College court. This time the varsity broke the New England Tournament scoring record, totalled no fewer than 100 points, and found itself the winner by 49 points...
...football team's mediocre record was brightened only by a 7-6 victory over Princeton, and the weather was consistently terrible, the soccer and cross-country teams met with better success. Undefeated in dual meets, the harriers won the Big Three championship as Pete Reider took the individual crown. The soccer team won the New England and Big Three titles and tied for the new Ivy crown when Grey Hodnett scored in overtime to beat Yale...
...name broke in 1934 when he and another newsman split a $5,000 reward for helping to solve a murder case for which two men were wrongly jailed. After the two suspects were freed and paid $2,500 each by the state for false imprisonment, one of them met Dinneen on the street. He remarked on the reporter's reward money and asked: "What did it cost you to get it?" "Nothing," said Dinneen. "Why?" The ex-suspect then told how he and his companion had been forced to pay $1,000 each to the Boston politician...