Word: pitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final, scurrying hours before adjournment, President Harry Truman last week sent to Congress his specifications for restoring peace & prosperity to Western Europe under the European Recovery Program. It was a momentous document. In 9,000 sober, deliberate words, the President asked the U.S. to pit its full economic strength against the destruction of war and the disruptive forces of aggressive Communism...
...flowers grow in Sains-en-Gohelle. The town, the houses and the people are grey. The miners who dig coal from the earth seem to bring some of the earth's blackness and dourness with them when they go home from the pit heads. Through this region, in the Pas-de-Calais, the wallowing armies of World War I swayed back & forth in the mud, and all around are historic names: Arras, Lens, Cambrai, Douai, Vimy Ridge. No flowers grow in Sains, but in season they can be picked from the fields and hedgerows outside, and there are usually...
Last week, after many miners had told him they wanted to work, the priest-mayor decided to take action. He collected a group of miners, wrapped a tricolor sash around his waist, and advanced on the pit heads. They were met by hundreds of Communists and hangers-on (only a few of them local people) who had armed themselves with clubs. After a short scuffle the Abbé Lorent's forces withdrew. "I wanted to avoid bloodshed," he said...
...forward George Goodreault and center George Winkler, B.U. has two scoring aces ready and willing to pit their point registering prowess against that of Captain George Hauptfuhrer and forward-center John Rockwell. Winkler, in fact, bested Hauptfuhrer's spree against M.I.T., 19 to 18 points...
...Voice. There was no such light about the head of Dr. May's pit-mate. "Not guilty," pled the scar-faced prisoner on trial for his life in London's Central Criminal Court. The little man who, in his self-conscious spruceness looked like a somewhat comic gangster, was Lord Haw Haw - William Joyce - the British Fascist who, during World War II, had nightly tried to sap his countrymen's will to survive by broadcasting defeatist propaganda from Germany...