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Word: standings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gorillas lay low. They were on the prowl one hot afternoon last week when Willie Lurye went into the ground-floor lobby of a Chinatown loft to make a phone call. Traffic was heavy in the building and nobody noticed anything wrong until the man at the cigar stand saw Willie come out of the booth, walk with painful erectness toward the door, call out "Tony" in a strangled voice. Tony was Tony Milletti, another organizer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Funeral for Willie | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...dramatic victory of the Western Powers at Berlin, and in the catastrophic defeats in Asia, Greece's victories and defeats in the war with communism had been all but forgotten by the West. Yet it was in Greece that the U.S. first publicly took a stand in aggressive resistance to the Red tide. Van Fleet holds a vital flank position in the battle between communism and the West. Says he: "This war in Greece is a first-class war of international communism. It's a war of annihilation with no respect for the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: With Will to Win | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Swedes stepped from the stand, exhausted, they had the zazous mopping their brows too. "Who would have thought those cold Nordics could burn so hot?" they marveled, and "hot enough to crack those icebergs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Do You Get It? | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...seven other eights. Three singles and a quad (four oarsmen plying eight oars) will also represent the Weld Boat Club. A double (two oarsmen and four oars, without a cox) have been working out of Weld in the past weeks but won't enter the regatta as plans now stand...

Author: By R. JOHNSON Shortlidge, | Title: Gala ARA Regatta Will Pack Charles Saturday | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

...Freshman race the second freshman heavies and the first freshman 15's will race Tech's second freshman heavies and LaSalle's first freshman heavies. The Jayvee 150's will stand Tech's and Dartmouth's varsity 150's in the 150 pound race. The other eights, Eliot's first boat, the Weld Boat Club football crew and the Union Boat Club's second boat will fight it out for the Brown trophy against Brown, Dartmouth and others in a less highly touted race...

Author: By R. JOHNSON Shortlidge, | Title: Gala ARA Regatta Will Pack Charles Saturday | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

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