Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians are about to break up Dick Harlow's famous looping defense, and they have a very good weapon. Lining up in an orthodox double wing, the Hanover men shift left or right into a single wing on almost every play. Sometimes they do not shift at all, but run plays directly from the original formation...
...mass meeting which jammed London's vast Albert Hall, and, even so, turned 8,000 away. The meeting was addressed by Sir Stafford Cripps and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, followed the full Malvern line. It drew Anglican prelates, Free Church and Eastern Orthodox leaders, Roman Catholic representatives, and stirred up a controversy that is still crackling briskly in British newspapers...
...possible-were meetings between political groups outside the Congress party. Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Moslem League's opportunistic president, barking for Pakistan (a separate Moslem state), came close to agreement on national government with his old political enemy, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu (Orthodox) Mahasabha. A Government refusal to allow Dr. Mookerjee to interview Gandhi helped to balk a possible agreement. The Moslem premiers of Sind and Punjab and Bengal urged conciliation. A millionaire industrialist and longtime intimate friend of Gandhi, Ghan-shyamdas Birla, said that he believed Gandhi would agree to allow Jinnah to form...
Chief victory pulled off by old-line orthodox Democrats was the beating of young Representative Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, who helped draft the Social Security Act, by onetime Irish Catholic Governor James Michael Curley, four times defeated in his race for Congress...
...Japs juggled parts and built experimental planes that would give any orthodox designer the horrors. But they found out what they needed to know. They put together a hodgepodge plane that fits in perfectly with their headlong style of fighting...