Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carole Waters, whose widowed mother works as a U.S. Treasury Department messenger in Washington, D.C., managed to earn only a B-minus average at Illinois' Rockford College, but she made such a hit with her schoolmates that they elected her president of the Student Government Association...
...Three. For spectators interested in true showroom models-minus any special power packs and equipped with automatic transmission, single carburetors and standard exhausts-Daytona's most significant event was the special "Big Three" competition between Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth. Again, Chevrolet spread-eagled the field. Chevies finished one-two-three with a top speed of 118.460 m.p.h., nearly 7 m.p.h. faster than the nearest Ford, which finished fourth. The fastest Plymouth trailed in eighth place. In the 160-mile beach-and-road race for new convertibles Atlanta's Tim Flock set a NASCAR record of 101.32 m.p.h...
...representatives of my Government fail to support the President on his Middle East policy, they will be doing far more to aid "Russianism" than a true Communist. If they insist on a watered-down, minus-this-or-that version, would they mind the U.S. Army being minus one less G.I.? I'd sure like to be home...
Temperatures plummeted to well below zero last night, and broke thermometers in Old Maine, where the official reading was minus 30 degrees. Here in Cambridge milk bottles shatter regularly, and ice on the sidewalks has turned to stone...
...Minus the benefit of the customary holiday games, the Crimson basketball team will undergo its severest test to date as it opens 1957 with three tough games this week. M.I.T. is first on the agenda, facing the varsity tonight in the I.A.B. at 8:30. Columbia and Pennsylvania will furnish opposition away this weekend...