Word: midweekly
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...midweek, a grey stubble was visible on the presidential chin. Encountering Truman at the officers' pool, a newsman remarked: "Mr. President, it looks like you're growing a Vandyke." Said Truman: "That's not a Vandyke, that's a Jeff Davis." The reporter quipped: "You must be courting the Southern rebels." Truman laughed...
...could prove that word came down from on high. Nevertheless, in midweek, AFA unexpectedly called off the suspension, offered to arbitrate the dispute. Negotiations dragged, and the clubs got set for Sunday games with non-union oldsters and youngsters. Smart porteño money was on a settlement that would shortly have the stars back on the field, kicking and happy...
Soberer and wiser after its initial loss of the season, the Freshman soccer team will try to atone for its Dartmouth defeat at the Business School this afternoon when it meets Exeter's clever and aggressive eleven. A 4 to 0 loss to the Varsity in a midweek scrimmage whetted their competitive appetite...
...Blue Suit Again. By midweek, the city fathers called in strikebreakers. They, too, encountered trouble. Idling strikers pointed scornfully at the newcomers' clumsy technique. Pretty, smartly dressed Communist Deputy Maria Luisa Cinciari-Rodano led 15 strikers' wives into battle against a detachment of volunteer garbage collectors. With resounding cries of "traitors!" and "robbers of bread!", Signora Rodano charged the unhappy scavengers...
Early last week Stevenson moved ahead again, and when the unofficial tallies were finished in midweek he held a 362-vote advantage. But in the days that followed, corrected totals were substituted for hurried, early vote counts. Stevenson's lead dwindled. At week's end Johnson was 162 votes ahead, and nobody from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande could guess who was finally going...