Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Death. One night last week, the beleaguered students brought their band onto the roof to play the national anthem. Guadalupanos and spectators in the streets, including other school children, joined in the chorus: "We are free and shall be always." The cops started to clear the streets. Stones flew at them. Swinging sabers and tossing tear gas, the mounted police charged. After a few blocks they dismounted and fired into the retreating crowd. Fifteen-year-old Sophomore Heriberto Avellanada was dead with a bullet in his heart, and 19 others, including a few adults, were wounded...
...cheering with which General Dwight D. Eisenhower was hailed. But when Kansas delegates thronged forward in an attempt to set off an Eisenhower-for-President boom, National Commander Paul Griffith waved them back. The ovation ended after only 30 seconds, and with it the theory that the convention would play a major part in presidential politics. (Presidential Aspirant Harold Stassen, a delegate to the convention, got a thunderous ovation when he spoke in behalf of the "Marshall approach...
...press conference a Ministry of Information spokesman, Ivan Boldizar, insisted that free speech and fair play had been guaranteed, even to the misguided opposition. Foreign newsmen estimated that 1,200,000 voters had been disfranchised, including several aged Jewish women who had escaped from the Nazis' crematory camp at Auschwitz, and who nevertheless were accused of "Fascist taint." Some of the disfranchised had lost their votes after the deadline for appeal. Spokesman Boldizar was asked if he thought this was fair play. "Well," he said, "no election laws are perfect...
Explaining his retirement from speculating in "Governments," Hosford said: "If you went to a gambling joint and they posted odds showing 85% in favor of the house, you wouldn't play, would...
...Free Play. The Securities & Exchange Commission finally published the results of its exhaustive inquiry into the causes of last fall's sharp break in the stockmarket. There was no evidence, said the report, that manipulators were to blame. In fact, said SEC, the drop of 10½ points last Sept. 3 was the result of no more than "the free play of different opinions as to when to buy and when to sell...