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This strategy scored Frank Hernberg on a 20-yard run after a 40-yard opening game march. Thorpe Kelly's interception set up the second Puritan touchdown, a ten-yard sprint by Pete Brooke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Beat Bunnies, 12-6; Kirkland Edges Dudley, 7-0 | 10/18/1949 | See Source »

...defiance of Vichy's orders, De Lattre was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Riom. His wife smuggled him a small metal saw hidden in a bunch of flowers and a ten-yard rope wrapped in his laundry. He escaped, went underground and, hiding behind a freshly grown beard, made his way to London and Algiers, where he joined De Gaulle's Free French. He took over Army "B" (later the French First Army), landed it in the south of France and took it up the Rhone valley to the Rhine and the Danube. The First became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN UNION: On a Tightrope | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

During the night, while the Sternists slept, units of the Israeli army ringed the jail with armored cars at ten-yard intervals. A loudspeaker in the courtyard summoned the prisoners to come out in groups of five and submit to search. As they surrendered, they were bundled off under heavy guard to the high-walled prison fortress of Acre. At the last count, 20 to 40 prisoners were still missing. Said a bemused government spokesman: "They probably went home to see their families and will be back in a few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Who's in Charge Here? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Bill Bingham hasn't had a chance to put anyone one the ten-yard line who belongs on the fifty. The Student Council hasn't had a chance to investigate the parking problem and conclude that the difficulty can best be described as lack of sufficient space in which to park. The Hygiene Department hasn't had a chance to let anybody die in its waiting room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forecast | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Kirklad ran into a tough line and pass interceptions and Calhoun found its drive cut short by costly fumbles as these teams battle to a scoreless deadlock. The Deacons penetrated to the ten-yard line at one point, but failed to connect for a touchdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Grid Champ as Houses Win Three, Lose Four to Yale | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

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