Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Commons, Bessie Braddock has irritated, amused and disgusted other M.P.s, but has ended by winning a grudging admiration from most. "Our people are living in flea-ridden, bug-ridden, rat-ridden, lousy hellholes," she told them. "I will continue to agitate and kick up a row until we get rid of these evils." When the Tories walked out to protest one Labor bill, Bessie (in the words of one reporter) "rose from her seat and made a few steps forward, then a few steps backward. She then arched her body and minced across the floor of the House...
...Parliament, the dispirited remnants of the late Jan Christiaan Smuts's United Party fought to the end. "The government is aiming at a puppet court which would ultimately be no better than a row of ventriloquists' dummies," shouted one M.P. before he was gaveled down. Many in the opposition were distressed more by what Strydom was doing to the courts than by what he was doing to the blacks. But Strydom had the votes: in the Lower House the bill passed its vital second reading...
...eight. This week in time train this crew defeated the varsity by nearly half a length and the jv's by by more that two lengths. So far this season the Yardlings have not given Joan than a length to any comparable crew during its two races. Leavitt will row the same boat which has defeated M.I.T., Syracuse, Princeton, and B.U. Race time...
...ruggers, who were missing ten regulars when they lost to Montreal last week, will be back at virtually full strength for tomorrow's game. With exception of Bill Frate, who is playing in the second row of the scrum with Orville Tice, and Brady Williamson, who is filling in as hooker for Martin Lindsay, the team will be the same as that which beat the Tigers in Bermuda...
Outside a furniture warehouse that was being used as a sorting station for casualties in Beaumont, Texas, the "wounded" were lying on litters in the street. There was row upon row of forms splattered with red paint, wearing torn and dirty old clothes. Word came that the disaster hospital, set up in an elementary school ten blocks away, was ready. Volunteer bearers lifted a litter. "Hey, what you got?" asked one of the cases. "Both legs blown off!" was the grinning reply...