Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity hockey team, with six straight victories, will face Boston University, the team which gave it the most trouble in the recent tourney, and the Crimson may be minus two key players for the contest...
...cover the Hungarian rebellion newsmen based all over Western Europe poured into Vienna and headed for the Hungarian border, minus Hungarian visas, which were almost impossible to get. At a manure-strewn Austrian border village named Nickelsdorf, they grabbed interviews with escaping travelers from Hungary, and pleaded with Hungarian border guards to let them in. In Budapest all but one of the handful of Western correspondents had to rely on Westerners heading for the Austrian border to carry their copy out; telephones, cables and telegraph lines were cut. The exception: the London Daily Mail's Noel Barber...
...that I wouldn't have to explain to my children - aged 13, 10 and 6 - why that gorgeous gal is sitting beneath the Christmas tree with nothing on but her rhinestones and rabbit fur (presumably Santa Claus caught her minus even those), I tore the page out to show to my husband - who will no doubt need no explanation...
...Peter Veres, silent mover in the Hungarian Writers' Union. He stood at the foot of the statue and read out a manifesto demanding complete freedom of speech and press, a new Hungarian government, release of political prisoners, and the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The national flag - minus the Red star and hammer crossed by an ear-of-wheat emblem - was draped around the statue. The national anthem was sung...
Suddenly, the drums stop. The coward's body (minus its head) is found. The plane must take off immediately. But who can pilot the plane out? And who will its passengers be? And who cares...