Word: mitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approaching newly conquered territory, where the Jap had obligingly helped out by maintaining a surfaced road from Kamaing to Mogaung, there joining the railway and highway to Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch'-i-nah). From Myitkyina it could go two ways: through jungle track northeast to Lauh-kaung, south to Tengyueh, east to Burma Road; or it could go south from Mogaung to Bhamo, northeast to Tengyueh. The battle's course would dictate the choice...
...terrific task: it meant fighting and building his way through hundreds of miles of trackless country, across mountains and through jungles. Last week, within 50 miles of Myitkyina (pronounced Mitch-i-nah), the goal whose capture would make his campaign a success, the Japs made a savage attempt to stop...
...eight years Ontario's Premier had been Mackenzie King's flamboyant enemy, Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn. Last October Mitch resigned, named pompous Gordon Conant (known to Toronto newsmen as "God") to succeed him. Conant thought until last week that he would be the new Premier. When Liberals, including Hepburn, ignored him at the Party convention and deserted him, Conant went off to a hospital to rest. Mitch himself stayed in political retirement on his onion farm...
...Pole Vault, Mitch Ford and Steve Brooks, the Crimson entries, have been sick recently, and so are not in shape. But they should be right up there, together with Sherry of Rhode Island State. Coach Mikkela's other entries are Gerry Lenane, Alec Rogerson, Len Wright, and Bob Chase...
...field events, the weakest is perhaps the broad-jump, for Jaakko was counting heavily on Doug Pirnie. However, he reports that Tom Holyoke is "doing very well. He strained a muscle a couple of weeks ago, but he is OK now." The pole vaulters, Mitch Ford, Steve Brooks, and Jerry Lenane have improved greatly, while Dick Pflster and Johnny Shattuck are standouts in the shot put. In the high-jump, Ted Baner and Jolin Bunker are predominant, while Tom White and Phil-Zeigier and the top two men in the 35 pound weight throw. Bob Chase and Bob Fisher...