Word: skips
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...Saturday night committee is under the direction of Lewis Goldberg and Sidney G. Kane. Ridlon "Skip" Kiphart, and Stephen B. Rubel make up the Friday night committee...
...third period Melrose threw a scare into the freshmen as they tallied twice more to tie the game up. Then Skip Johnson beat the Melrose goalie with a fast shot at 11:42, unassisted, but Melrose recovered to knot the score again...
...skip over the news of the H-bomb in the papers," said a man in London last week, "and then I look at my neighbor and think: 'How can that fool sit there and read how they're going to blow him up and never bat an eye?' " Doc Hicks, proprietor of a barbershop on South Audubon Road, Indianapolis, summed up for his customers: "I don't think the public understands it. That's why they don't talk much about it." The "it" was certainly hard to understand, and so men talked...
...deliberately advised his stepson to refuse to register, he said, and had offered him money to skip to Canada or Mexico. The stepson disregarded the advice and on his 18th birthday registered. But 40-year-old Wirt Warren, a Unitarian and a Socialist who had been drafted as a conscientious objector in World War II, was plainly inviting the U.S. to make something of it anyway...
...scar-cheeked, Kenney ruthlessly rid himself of incompetent brass, re-trained his flyers and lifted them from lethargy to lethal effectiveness in a few short weeks. To replace plane losses, they built spare-parts crates from wrecked machines. Kenney himself invented the low-level parachute-fragmentation bomb and adopted skip bombing as a standard technique against Japanese ships. Once plane and personnel replacements began roll in, the Jap air forces didn't have a chance. One year after his arrival in the Pacific, Kenney gave them a session which they themselves referred to as the "Black...