Word: romps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cubs have lost but one encounter, while the Freshmen have been able to win only one of their four games. On paper, then, it would look as if the Blues had a good chance of regaining a part of the prestige which vanished in last year's romp...
Hitler's Problem. Geographically the invasion of the Ukraine is now no more difficult for Germany than the invasion of Poland was a year ago. The Ukraine, like Poland, is almost entirely flat so that motorized columns can romp over it at will unless they meet their military match. The only major obstacles of terrain are the great rivers which flow southward into the Black Sea. While the Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps...
...this chaos of counterclaims, one possibility grew more likely: a deadlock that might allow a dark horse to romp away with the nomination...
...still wandering last week. All that seemed certain was: 1) Thomas E. Dewey and Robert Alphonso Taft would go to the convention with more delegates than anyone else; 2) neither would have enough to win on the first ballot. Plentiful were the guesses that a dark horse might romp away with the nomination. The most rambunctious dark horse, getting more rambunctious daily, was Wendell Willkie, onetime Democrat...
...dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...