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Word: reno (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short distances and the hurdles. Up to this meet no one has challenged Bob Twitchell and Pete Dew. But Yale has Hank Thresher, sophomore sprinter who has overcome polio to run the 100 in 9.9 and the 220 in 21.6 this season. He is backed by Larry Reno, another sophomore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Faces Yale Saturday in New Haven | 5/8/1953 | See Source »

Sales Campaign. In Reno, police arrested Radiator Repairman Verle Wilbur and three teen-age boys, said Wilbur had hired the boys to punch holes in the radiators of 35 to 50 parked cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

Three days after the fight for Baldy started, the Chinese attacked Bunker Hill, some five miles east of Panmunjom. again with a reinforced regiment. Bunker was held by units of the glory-laden U.S. 1st Marine Division. The leathernecks had small forces on two knobs called Vegas and Reno-perhaps a platoon on each-and these units were simply overrun and wiped out. One radio message came through from a caved-in and sealed bunker: "Only seven of us are left alive-the rest have suffocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Baldy & Bunker | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Marines recaptured Vegas, lost it again; then, after five grueling counterattacks against "bucketfuls" of enemy grenades and heavy fire from the Red mortars and artillery, got back on top. But at week's end Reno was still in Communist hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Baldy & Bunker | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

...Unbelievable. Big Jim Jeffries half killed himself working off 65 Ibs. The night before the fight, which was held in Reno on July 4, 1910, he was in such bad shape that a contingent of public-spirited citizens tried to bribe Johnson to take a dive. Johnson politely replied: "Tell Mister Jim that we are going to do the best we know." In the 15th round the next day, before 16,000 unbelieving customers, Jim Jeffries sank soddenly to the canvas, his once awesome right draped over the lower rope of the ring. He was not counted out-nobody ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Jim | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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