Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flood-devastated provinces of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. Hundreds had drowned; scores of thousands were homeless in an area almost the size of South Carolina. Later, from a low-flying helicopter, Nehru saw the levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills, temples, schools and homes collapse and vanish into the muddy torrent. Once a great mass of earth crashed down only 20 feet from...
...exerted no concerted effort; they have no statewide organization, no overall policy. At one small-town Rotary meeting Citizens' Councillors present were asked for a show of hands. More than two-thirds of the Rotarians admitted membership in the C.C. Said William J. Caraway, mayor of upstate Leland (pop. 5,000): "We are trying a peaceful and intelligent approach to a very difficult problem. We aren't Ku Kluxers, but if we fail, a Klan-type group will surely follow...
Charles landed its 23 Jewish passengers-men, women and children-at the nearest Dutch port, New Amsterdam (pop. 800). They were the first Jewish settlers in what is now U.S. territory...
Older than, most of his classmates, Glenn Warner was naturally nicknamed "Pop." He had never played football before, and he developed a beginner's taste for trick plays. Soon after graduation he deserted the law and turned to coaching. Football was never the same...
...Hidden Ball. In 1899 Pop was hired as a combination athletic director, coach, trainer and father confessor for the incomparable athletes of the Government school for Indians at Carlisle, Pa. Eligibility rules were simple: students had to be Indians. Practice schedules were remarkably uncluttered by classes...