Word: rested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as it could, the Administration had avoided going to war with its own Southerners over civil rights. It had wanted to get the rest of the Fair Deal in the works first. But this week President Harry Truman issued his ultimatum: meet the Southerners head...
...January. The third time, a customer was shot in the hip when the gun went off in a nervous bank-robber's hand. Each time the robbers were captured and speedily bustled off to prison; the police recovered $2,817 of the loot, and insurance made up the rest-but the stickups made a deep impression on the bankers...
...week's end, workers were voicing thoughts which would not even have popped into their heads a few months ago. Said a mechanic, grumbling over an announced renewal of gas rationing: "Why should we have gas rationing when the rest of the world is doing away with rationing? We are a rich country. We must have been badly governed." Many an Argentine worker would nod in solemn agreement...
Leverett's A basketball squad, breaking out of the league yesterday, lost to Curry College of Boston 38 to 28. The Bunnies led 14 to 12 at the half, but fell off in the rest of the game chiefly because of wholesale substitutions...
...starting three Eli forwards, Captain Gordie Ritz, Watson Bray, and Allen Clapp, have collected 74 points among them, nine more than the rest of the team combined. Center Bray leads the team in scoring with 17 goals, while Ritz is the playmaker with 16 assists. The only other Yale scoring ace is Tom McNamara with 11 goals and an equal number of assists...