Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting religion twelve years ago, Inayatullah went native with a bang. He became Allama Mashriqi, "The Sage of the East," began preaching resistance to the British as a starter. The Spadecarriers now sport a grandiloquent motto: "To establish hegemony over the world, to become rulers once again, and to conquer the universe...
Jesse Jones got tired of electric shocks in his office, put rubber bonnets on all his doorknobs. >> An airport cab starter threatened to knock Fiorello H. LaGuardia's block off when the New York Mayor parked his car across the taxi line. Fiorello offered to lick any three taxi drivers, was led off gesticulating by airline officials. >> General John J. Pershing, 80, lay ill of age's infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came...
...than his first. Stacy May, head statistician for OPM, had predicted a 1942 demand of 120.4 million tons, almost 30 million tons above present capacity. Mr. Dunn regarded this figure as inflated, notably on the side of civilian needs.* He therefore shaved it to 102 million tons, for a starter. Then he averaged it with American Iron & Steel Institute's lower estimate (92.6 million tons), with the frank admission that either figure might be right. This watering-down gave him 97.5 million tons of expected demand. His estimate of "reliable" capacity was 91.3 million tons. That was not enough...
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...defense will be the dependable trio of Dave Gilbert, Don Lowry and Don Wilson, the other Junior starter. Gilbert, as the steadying influence, has been invaluable all season. Goalie George Hanford, back in the nets after a sally to the attack, settles the team down when it is on the run, makes many seemingly impossible stops, surely rates as the best goalie in the league...