Word: prize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the Mortars. The Jews' most dazzling military prize of the week was Haifa, the only port where seagoing ships can dock. As British troops prepared last week to withdraw from all of the city except the dock area, Jewish soldiers began to filter into the town. Others gathered on the slopes of Mount Carmel. One morning at i a.m. they struck. Behind a creeping mortar barrage, the Jews moved into the Arab quarters of the city. Bewildered Arabs gathered for one brief counterattack, then collapsed in leaderless confusion. Within a day, the Jews had taken Haifa...
...Jamaica, N.Y., the East's best hope in this week's Kentucky Derby-a chestnut colt named My Request-won the $40,000 added Wood Memorial Stakes, then headed for Louisville to do battle with Calumet Farm's prize Kentucky pair, Citation and Coaltown. Running as an entry, C & C would be such odds-on favorites (about 25? to the dollar) that nobody could make much money betting on them-and it seemed almost foolhardy to bet against them...
Born three decades ago in Boston, Ciardi spent his undergraduate years in Bates and Tufts, and then moved out to Michigan for his M. A. in English. There, in 1939, "I suddenly found myself very rich" when "Homeward to America," a book of verse, won the annual Hopwood prize and was accepted for publication...
Hawkins received the Class of 1867 Scholarship. Oettinger won the N. P. Hallowell Memorial, and Pittenger was awarded the Edwards Whitaker Prize...
...Sons. Edward G. Robinson, Burt Lancaster and Mady Christians in a good screen translation of Arthur Miller's prize play (TIME, April...