Word: northeasterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the island-dotted, almost landlocked Gulf of Paria, separating Trinidad from the coast of northeastern Venezuela, Pirate Edward Teach, the infamous Blackbeard, once sallied forth to ravage American ports as far north as Virginia. In the 232 years since Blackbeard's death, the gulf has been a highway for smuggling between Trinidad and the South American mainland. But for a time this month smugglers and even honest fishermen feared to venture to sea. Word had run along the waterfront that once again pirates were operating in the Gulf of Paria...
Funerals & Fires. "When I was a boy . . ." Blanton begins each Globe-Democrat column. Then, taking his readers by the hand, he roams through the green gardens (and occasionally down the primrose paths) of his remarkably precise memory of Paris and northeastern Missouri in the good old days. In successive columns, Blanton revisited his one-room rural schoolhouse (the teachers are better-schooled, nowadays), his aunt's funeral (no flowers, but plenty of lugubrious singing), a riotous Democratic political rally (music by Barney's Band, composed exclusively of Republicans) and a bucket-brigade fire...
...positive side however, Berg has victories over Upsala, Fort Devens, and Northeastern, a tie with Boston College--and six one run losses. "The team doesn't have a lot of sluggers," Berg said yesterday, "but we'll win our share...
Godin will be opposed by sophomore Amos Dixon. A righthander, Dixon is Berg's best, and was credited with the victory over Northeastern as well as the tie with B.C. HARVARD M.I.T. Foynes, cf Thompson, ss Caulfield, 1b Gushee, lf White, ss Philliou, 3b Crosby, c Byrne, rf Akillian, lf Celantano, 2b Robinson, rf Johnson, cf Huntington, 3b Lubarsky, c Cavanaugh, 2b McMillan, 1b Godin, p Dixon...
M.I.T. is favored to win the Providence regatta today and tomorrow at the Edge-wood Yacht Club, although Brown and Yale will offer stiff competition, and Harvard, Coast Guard, Rhode Island State, and Boston College are not far behind. Williams and Northeastern are expected to trail the field. The winner will go to California in June for the national title races...