Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause. Said Pieck: "There is no doubt that it has had a certain effect on the needy masses." Pieck cried for direct action against the uncompromisingly anti-Communist city government: "Fellow workers! You must frustrate a reactionary plot. Urgently we call on the people of Berlin to settle their score with . . . parties in the city government . . . We are sure the people of Berlin will understand." They understood, but not in the way Pieck meant...
...done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway down the field. Final score: Yankees 21, Dodgers...
...hour and a half, not one of the 1,696 trapshooters bettered his score of 99. Then a Pennsylvania truck farmer hit 96 birds in a row, missed the 97th, shattered the next three to tie Jimmy. Under a 97° sun, Farmer John W. Schenk and young Rasmussen met in a 25-target shoot-off, with Jimmy firing from 19 yards, his opponent from 20. The crowd was rooting for Jimmy. Both Jimmy and Farmer Schenk missed their sixth birds. Then Jimmy muffed his 23rd, almost wept when he realized that it had cost him the first prize...
...Know the Score." Negro Publisher Davis Lee of the Newark weekly Telegram (circ. 110,000) found a Negro's life below the Mason-Dixon line more tolerable than north of it. In an editorial he wrote: "When I am in Virginia or North Carolina I don't wonder if I will be served if I walk into a white restaurant. I know the score. However, I have walked into several right here in New Jersey . . . and have been refused service . . . New Jersey today boasts of more civil rights legislation than any other state in the union...
...Jory) hack at each other with trowel-sized knives. The story is based on the Prosper Mérimée novel and does not make use of the music from Bizet's opera. It is prettier and more exciting than the opera could ever be without the score-but nothing about it begins to match Bizet's music...