Word: slipperyness
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One night last week German Austrian storm troopers loaded 51 Jews, including an 82-year-old rabbi, into a Danube river launch, took them downstream to the point where Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary meet. There they dumped them on a stone breakwater in the middle of the swollen stream. All...
Last week, in Chicago's vast Coliseum, the American Bowling Congress was rolling into the sixth week of its 1938 session -to determine five-man, two-man and individual U. S. bowling champions. The local "booster" teams had already accomplished their chore of breaking in the brand-new, slippery...
Since the Crimson attack was principally based on a running offensive, while the English ruggers were more dependent on kicking, the rain and slippery field were serious handicaps to the Varsity.
In the first game of the playoff, staged in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, a slippery floor confused both teams. With Luisetti as high man scoring 20 points, Stanford won, 52-to-39. In the second game, played in Stanford's small Pavilion ("Cracker Box"), Luisetti's...
Hardheaded, slippery Hero Ulysses left home with his mother's blessing when he was six. At 18 he had been a bootblack, a harbor scavenger, a hashish peddler in the brothels of Alexandria. His next move was to embark for Africa with a stock of liquor for the British...