Word: rip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good-will mission, Milton Eisenhower received an all-out welcome from that old yanqui-baiter, Juan Perón. The Peronista press proclaimed: "The Argentine people have again set back their American calendars to zero hour, day one." The President took his guest to the prizefights and to a rip-roaring soccer match. At lunches and dinners they talked for several hours. Likeliest reason for Perón's big switch: he hopes for trade and financial assistance from the Eisenhower Administration...
Harvard's baseball players, who have been pulling a veritable Rip Van Winkle at the plate this season, slammed out four extra base hits and four singles yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, to defeat Dartmouth 11 to 2 in both teams' Eastern League opener...
...many people leaf through these books that by the end of reading period they are quite dog-cared, with many sections either missing or mutilated beyond recognition. Added to normal handling damage is the rudeness of the minority who rip out exams for further study. Since the library receives only a limited number of copies, it cannot replenish the stock. So, near the end of reading period, it is almost impossible to find examinations in popular courses...
Stuffy still recalls how Eddie Collins of the Red Sox kept a wad of gum on the button of his cap until he had two strikes against him. Rip Sowell of the Pirates would never go to shortstop position without touching third, and Tris Speaker, centerfielder for the Bosox, would construct a neatly drawn line in front of the plate each time he came up to bat. Stuffy has a lot of respect for a good superstition...
...move to rip state tax exemptions from educational institutions which refuse to fire "known Communists" from faculties and student bodies was proposed in the Massachusetts Senate yesterday...