Word: putting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutra comes to the U.S. as President of a nation whose friendly relations with the U.S. go back to 1789, when Thomas Jefferson met a group of young Brazilian students in Paris and encouraged their dreams of independence. As a Brazilian foreign officer put it: "We are taught three things in school: believe in mother, God, and the friendship...
Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, world-record hurdler and Olympic-champion sprinter, who has reaped reams of publicity on the track, took off his spikes and put on another pair of shoes: he set to work grinding out publicity for the Cleveland Indians baseball team...
Hurley sweated over his docile pupil. He put hobbles on Foster to make him keep his legs closer together, made chalk marks on the floor to show him where to put his feet. "The whole secret of fighting is balance and leverage," Hurley kept saying. Foster kept on looking perplexed...
...chin. Vince Foster went down with a crash and took a count of two. He got up, ran into more long, looping rights, was knocked down twice more. The referee stopped the fight. Vince Foster, beaten in exactly two minutes, 26 seconds, stood in his corner while his handlers put his towel and bathrobe on him. He was looking out into the crowd and avoiding the eyes of Manager Hurley...
...Russian-language programs in February 1948. They were not too successful then, but last month a mighty barrage of jamming broke out. It practically obliterated the Russian-language programs of both the Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corp. Directional receivers proved that the Russians had put 150 transmitters...