Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game in the first period when it continually pressed the Princeton backs and had several chances at goals. But once this opportunity was missed, the Tigers began to take over. Throughout the next quarter, play slowly switched in favor of the home team. Bagnoli made one beautiful save near the end of the period to keep the game scoreless, when a Princeton forward broke free and shot for the goal from a distance of no more than 15 feet. Bagnoli dove for the ball and just knocked it out of the nets...
...Democratic victories in such generally Republican states as Indiana and Ohio. Economic hotspots, e.g., Indiana's South Bend district with its hundreds of unemployed Studebaker workers, took out their resentment on Republicans. Farmers, despite their own upturning economy, failed to return to their historic Republicanism in nearly enough numbers to make up the difference. Only in the South, with its improving economy, did Republicans come near holding their own in the congressional elections-and there, they had precious little to hold...
Half a continent away in Bonham, Texas, at the same time, another Washington prime mover was also scrutinizing the near future. From where he stood, Sam Rayburn could see in it a Democratic Congress and another term (his ninth) as Speaker of the House. But he saw as well something of the same aims and ends that motivated Dwight Eisenhower. Therefore, said Mr. Sam, there will not be "bad blood" between the President and the new Congress. "We're not going to hate Eisenhower bad enough for us to change our principles...
...King's departure drew near, the U.S. formally called upon both Nasser and Ben-Gurion to make no rash moves...
...think I'll use J-12349 since it is so near to perfection. If only I could change the nine. But anyway...