Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both the heavies and lightweights were forced to cancel two-thirds of the normal number of days spent on the river before vacation. The result of the late winter ice, the fifteen extra days in the tank have set the crews two weeks behind the majority of their opponents...
Much of the experimentation this spring has centered about the stroke seat. With three strong possibilities--Bob Lawrence, stroke of last year's successful varsity, Tom Nuzum, and Sophomore Perry Boyden--Love spent a long period before deciding upon Boyden, who not only has shown continual improvement in his bladework but supplies a large amount of the power in the boat...
Clad in his green army fatigues, Castro spent much of yesterday, which was his first day in Washington, wandering around the city and shaking hands. He complained that the great public interest in his six guards made him appear dangerous...
...brief turn at writing in Washington soon ended when in the spring of the following year he set out to the Solomons, where he formed a friendship with Admiral Nimitz. Establishing headquarters in Hawaii, he spent the summer canvassing the combat area of the South Pacific. He survived the Japanese air attack on Guadalcanal and saw even more action on the night of July 12, when his ship engaged in a skirmish as it crossed the "slot" between Guadalcanal and Bougainville. A brief review of Atlantic waters notwithstanding, he stayed in the South Pacific until the end of the year...
...spent three days with a paratroop battalion in Normandy a few weeks after they had been dropped, reconstructing the action one day for a case study along the lines of Max Weber's "ideal type" theory. Then followed ten days with a ranger battalion that had hit the Normandy beaches, including the wounded. He helped write a series of 16 monographs on landings, concentrating his efforts on the story of Omaha Beach. After the war, series on the workings of the engineers, the medics, the supply corps, and the general staff were prepared, modeled after the original case studies...