Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Germany] on the Oder and Neisse." U.S. observers had several more or less plausible theories on why Rokossovsky had been sent to Warsaw: i) the Soviet army was going to be dramatically withdrawn from Germany, but it would now be able to dig in permanently in Poland, a short 50 miles from Berlin; 2) the previous heads of the Polish army were not reliable; 3) the way to prevent future Titos was to incorporate the satellites, lock, stock & barrel, into the U.S.S.R...
...tall, ruddy-cheeked 66 and still an undeviating party liner, had a new and less imposing title: senior correspondent. Moscow had decided that the Tass bureau in Washington, like its offices in other world capitals, should be headed by a citizen of the U.S.S.R. Todd's successor: short, curly-haired Mikhail Fedorov, a Russian-born aircraft worker who joined Tass after...
...each on 1949's All-America, is coaching power. At Berkeley, California's owlish Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf admits that it is one of the reasons for the widening gap between football's haves and havenots. In preparation for a game, he asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces to & fro overseeing the whole production. "By Friday, the hay is in the barn," he says...
...HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 18--It was brains over brawn on Yale Field today, as the Harvard soccer team downed Yale, 2 to 0, by playing short, accurate ball all the way. Scoring once in the second period and again at the beginning of the fourth, Coach Bruce Monro's team made a heavy, "boot-and-run" Eli outfit play Harvard's game all the way except for a few shaky minutes at the beginning...
...other passes go mostly to end Brad Quackenbush on short patterns. John Setear, who was used extensively in this capacity last year, caught a few passes in the first quarter at Princeton and then served as a faker for the rest of the game...