Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good. Under bipartisan leadership, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty,, the first peacetime alliance with European nations in U.S. history, and a $1 billion program to help arm the alliance. After a seizure of quibbling, Congress authorized a generous $5.4 billion appropriation for EGA. The hobbling "peril-point" amendment was struck off the reciprocal-trade program, and the authority extended two years. The 81st also gave U.S. defense all that the President had asked-and decided that he had not asked enough. It appropriated a $15.6 billion defense budget, a record for peacetime, adding funds for an extra...
...looked as if the Indian freshmen wouldn't need the extra point they missed on the first try as they galloped 77 yards for another touchdown in the same period and added the point to lead...
...token workout in the Stadium yesterday and when it was over Coach Art Valpey rated today's game clearly a toss-up. "It will depend on how far each team has come in its recovery," he said. The betting gentry has given the locals a six and one-half point edge, largely because of their superior physical condition...
Curley had met Roosevelt at a luncheon at the home of Colonel Edward M. House ("the president-maker") in Magnolia, Mass. After the luncheon, when the group faced the press, Curley told the newsmen point-blank that it was going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard...
After each half of the squad ran through both the offensive and defensive work for some 30 minutes apiece, the entire group assembled for the regular Thursday feature, punting and extra point practice. Behind the actual scrimmaging lines, Roche and Carroll Lowenatcin booted punts, and Hyde and Charley Walsh kicked extra points...