Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...upset. Harvard's Barry Wood took the opening kickoff and slipped it backwards to Jack Crickard, who slipped it forward for ninety-five yards. Yale was about to be immolated according to prescription. But Harvard never scored, and Albie Booth's fourth-quarter fieldgoal was a one-stroke decline and fall of the Horween empire. During the next three years Harvard ruined Bates and New Hampshire regularly. Period...
...fall. The Varsity will begin fall practice on Friday with the Freshmen following suit Monday. Only Captain Frank Strong, bowman Frank Scully, Don Felt, and Ted Reynolds will be on hand to fill their old slots in the Varsity shell, leaving Coach Bolles the problem of finding a new stroke for the third consecutive year. He must also produce three new oars and a coxswain from last year's jayvee boats...
...Volunteers) now numbers 150,000. Head of the Ittehad and field marshal of the Razakars is 46-year-old Kasim Razvi. Razvi is against submission to Indian rule in any degree. "Death with the sword in hand," he tells his followers, "is always preferable to extinction by a mere stroke of the pen." Razvi's position is so strong that the Indian government calls him "the Nizam's Frankenstein monster." "I will, I must defend the rights of the Moslems even against H.E.H. [His Exalted Highness] himself," said Razvi recently. "If India attacks us I can and will...
...Hearst's Journal-American Paul Gallico wound himself up and let himself go: "Home was the Home Run King . . . For this was what Ruth was king and master of -the stroke that led to home. All men are ever turning homeward. The very baseball phrase-'Home Run'-has a music of its own . . ." On the sport page, Bill Corum told how he had known for some time that "the Great Umpire had his thumb pressed against 'strike three' on the final and inescapable indicator." And Sport Editor Jimmy Powers, a more literary fellow, quoted John...
...This Petulant Ajax." The maneuver was almost unprecedented. Not since 1856 had a President called back Congress in an election year.* It was a daring stroke of political chicanery. For the moment, at least, Harry Truman had destroyed the notion that the Republican Party would win almost by default. Like an aggressive general, he had seized the offensive at a time and place of his own choosing. If anyone had thought that the President would fight a hopeless delaying action against the Dewey panzers, it was now plain as a tank track that Harry Truman meant to go down fighting...