Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sake of the alumni, the 440-yd freestyle is dropped, the 200-yd breaststroke cut down to 100 yards, and 50 yards are lopped off the 150-yd back-stroke...
Nonetheless, they have dances, and the main memory that came rushing back was about the one that I went to. It took place in a hotel ballroom located three blocks from the school. At the stroke of midnight an awful gray-haired lady blew a whistle, and the girls promptly marched single-file into an armored bus, which took them safely home...
...MacVicar, Norm Watkins, Chuck Hoolzer (last year's captain), and Bob Berke, a promising sophomore who captained last season's '51 outfit. Several other new arrivals from the ranks of the sophomore class include John Steinhardt in the 150-yd. backstroke, Rene Vielman in the 220-yd. breast-stroke, Pete Bierre in the 440-yd. freestyle, and Bob Tolf, also in the freestyle...
Then, in a master-stroke of double irony on M. Sartre's part, the party line reverse and the murdered leader is to be declared a martyr, and the young assassin, the intellectual who would be a man-of-action, can never decide for himself whether he killed the leader on obedience to convictions or in a fit of passion. Deprived of the satisfaction of the former and now on the party's liquidation list, he is led off the stage in a fit of tormented laughter as the last curtain falls...
...Arthur Farrell protested: "We are being discriminated against just as much as our colored friends ... I have a child in the high school who planned to be an engineer. What's going to happen to him?" Replied School Board Member A. W. Walker: "Just take it as a stroke of bad luck that couldn't be helped. [Anyway] your son may be drafted into the Army...