Word: modeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ironically, it was Bucky Harrison, whose right too was infallible in seven efforts last Saturday, who missed the important conversion attempt against the Tigers on Saturday. Drvaric's place-kick after the first score was a model shot, and his kickoffs left little to be desired in length and height...
...hand, Austria hoped for U.S.-British aid and dreaded being left in the lurch by the West. A simple news item like General Mark Clark's confinement to Walter Reed Hospital (because of an ear infection) created a minor sensation. Jittery Chancellor Leopold Figl, formerly a model of imperturbability, inquired whether Clark's illness was not political...
...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...
...suffered a nasty little dig from the underworld. Style-conscious burglars broke into a London tailor shop where a suit of the King's hung, departed with four choices of their own, but the King's was not among them. The snooted suit: a dark blue lounge model...
Niels Bohr, too, was unsure. Bohr's model of the atom (nucleus and orbit electrons) won him a Nobel Prize in 1922. He escaped from Nazi-ruled Copenhagen in 1943, and brought his precious knowledge to U.S. atom-bomb builders, with whom he worked in thin incognito as "Mr. Nicholas Baker...