Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evenly matched slate of eight teams marked the start of the fourteen game House soccer race last week...
...first-rate Army Air Forces pilot in World War II-he was one of ten in the ferry command who volunteered to ferry P-475 across the Atlantic, later flew The Hump from India to China-he came home to head a reform slate to clean up Phoenix's city government. He earned such public acclaim for doing just that-and cutting taxes to boot-that in 1952 he felt sassy enough to tackle Democratic Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Harry Truman's majority leader. Homespun Ernie scarcely deigned to notice this lively upstart. But in the Eisenhower landslide...
Producer Ivan Tors hovered weightlessly just out of camera range; fluttering near by were a director, a movie cameraman and a lighting expert. Tors's pretty secretary, Zale Parry, glided about the group, taking notes on a slate. The movie camera, encased in a weightless "blimp," focused on the desperate struggle of Actor Lloyd Bridges as he grappled with a villain who might have come from Mars...
...most successful freshman teams were, as usual, the Yardling sextet with a 16 and 6 record and a 6-2 win over Yale, and the '61 squash team which had a 10 and 1 slate and an easy win over the Blue...
...charges that he helped prepare a fraudulent 1951 tax return for his wife, Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, and evaded payment of taxes on $3,700 in a 1952 joint return. Moreover, at week's end, New York's Democratic organization was considering dropping him from its 1958 slate...