Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lajos Ordass had been imprisoned on charges of black-market dealings, conspiracy against the government-very like the charges against Cardinal Mindszenty. While Bishop Ordass was in jail, the Communists had repeatedly tried to make him resign his office. He refused. Recently, Lutheran Bishop Zoltan Thuroczy-who wants to play along with the Reds-visited Ordass in his cell and delivered a Communist ultimatum: either Ordass resigns, or Communist Boss Rakosi puts the Lutheran Church under complete state control, with a government commissioner in charge. Last week Ordass still held...
...unease of Western Europe was seized upon by the Communists and by the Third Forcers. Sneered the Paris Communist newspaper Libération: "U.S. hesitations are blocking the Atlantic pact." Sneered the leftist Franc-Tireur: "The Americans are willing to play with this child-alliance but not to adopt...
...rich, kept from Manhattan and Europe by foreign-exchange restrictions, went to the home resorts. The new industrial classes, their pockets packed with inflated currencies, plunged into the pleasures of unaccustomed leisure. In such seaside capitals as Rio and Montevideo, even the underprivileged poor had a chance to play on world-famous beaches...
...about what I wanted and we ate regular. I feel at home there even now. I might end up there an old man some day, seein' over those boys like Professor Davis did." Best of all for Louis, "Professor" Davis taught him to read music a bit, and play, first the tambourine and drums, then the bugle, finally a battered pawnshop cornet. Unable to keep the small, smooth mouthpiece on his big lips at first, Louis filed grooves in it and mastered Home, Sweet Home...
Princeton's squad, which in the words of Coach Dick Vaughan is not nearly "so well loaded" as the Crimson, has been hindered all season by injuries. This, accompanied by mediocre and inconsistent play, accounts for the Tigers' present position in the Pentagonal League cellar...