Word: press
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State turned his head slowly from one interrogator to another, his slightly bulging, frosty eyes looking down an impressive, beaklike nose. His expression hardly changed, except to break occasionally into a fleeting wry smile. He handled the press conference delicately, parrying questions, articulating carefully in his cornetlike voice...
...prize bull mastiff turned out to be the property of Pete Fuller, last year's wrestling captain. Unfortunately, Pete was called away to Lowell during the show to dispose of a pair of promising young Golden Glove heavyweights. The man he left in charge, however, informed the local press that Mr. Fuller usually called his dog Anne...
With the Crimson leading 14 to 13, going into the final match, Houston pinned his old football rival John Chernak at 1:02 with a body press. Houston's five points preserved the Harvard...
Dave Smith pinned Captain Frank Manchester in the 136-pound department with a reverse nelson and body press at 3:55, but Harvard's 7 to 5 advantage was turned into an 8 to 7 Bruin lead on Sandy Beachen's decision over Buddy King...
...altogether heartening. It was also heartening that a man like Gerhart Eisler was able to speak in Harvard University. Officials in many institutions would have been horrified even at the thought of giving a lecture hall to an international Communist. ("What would the alumni say? What would the conservative press say?") Harvard's administration happily disregarded these and other outside pressures; Harvard undergraduates had the right to listen to Eisler or to stay away from the meeting...