Word: post
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saipan, nature and the bulldozer have all but covered the four-year-old litter of battle. But last week, belching fire like one of his own flamethrowers, the Marines' General Holland M. Smith scorched open an old, still angry scar. Writing with cantankerous zest in the Saturday Evening Post, "Howlin' Mad" revived his case against the Army's Major General Ralph Smith and his 27th Division, a New York National Guard outfit transferred to Marine command for the Saipan invasion...
Football Czar Oscar Nicolini (who is also Argentina's director of Post & Telegraphs) was no man to suffer such a rebuke in silence. Promptly he called a meeting of the powerful governing body, AFA (Asociación de Futbol Argentina'). To teach the players a stern lesson, AFA voted to wash out the rest of the season...
...Washington bureau, anxious to provide guidance for its members, had wired papers around the country for their latest vote estimates. It wrote 300 words of guidance but threw the story away as too inconclusive. Four years from now, sagely suggested the Washington Post's James R. Wiggins, "the A.P. should put out an hourly bulletin reminding its members that an American election is never over until the last vote is counted...
...another wild ovation before intermission. And by the time his program was over, Victor de Sabata had Pittsburgh in his pocket. After the pounding, accelerating bombardment of Bolero, there was a full minute of silence, as the audience pulled itself together. Then came the cheers. Next morning the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reviewed the concert on Page One; the afternoon Sun-Telegraph and Press gave it frontpage headlines...
...harmful, Art feels. This reassuring coolness lasts until the winning team picks up the ball and carries it off the field. Then, and only then, can he ease up and let the inner tension seep from him. And when it is gone, as he has admitted at several post-game press conferences, "I'm numb...