Word: tarn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany, it worked. Thorez presided at the opening of the glassworks and Albi greeted him as its savior. His fame spread from Albi through the Department of Tarn. Result: once-conservative Tarn was almost evenly divided in last month's referendum vote...
...Championship. Next morning on the plane to Chicago he could neither rest nor eat. But just before reaching Chicago he got his grip back, casually mentioned that he would win his next three tournaments. He made good on that 100-to-1 shot-by adding Chicago's rich Tarn O' Shanter tournament (value, $13,462.50), the Nashville Invitation ($2,400) and the Dallas Open ($2,000) to his year's victories...
...letter carried plans for the formation of a unit under his command which was to operate behind Union lines. Mosby's Tarn O'Shanter Rebels became a bugbear to the Union, a delight to Robert E. Lee, who cited Mosby oftener than he did any other Confederate officer...