Word: thirds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...varsity swimmers started fast by winning five of the first seven events, but the lack of depth on the team prevented the Crimson from taking a commanding lead. With second and third-place finishes in the opening events, the Middies stayed close. Navy swimmers took first place in each of the final individual events the 440 freestyle and the 200-yard breaststroke, and narrowed the margin to 39-40 before the climactic final relay...
...varsity pulled away from the visitors. But the Middies rallied back with a first and a second in the 440-yard freestyle and an Academy record-breaking performance in the 200-yard breastroke by Diek Taft. However, victory in the freestyle relay clinched the meet for the Crimson, their third straight win of the season...
...miserable for the Red rulers of that unhappy state, suffered a series of body blows: one of its top officials was exposed by the East Germans as a former Nazi youth leader; another was captured by the Reds when he went for a sail alone on the Wannsee; a third confessed he had been working for the Reds from the moment he joined the Jurists...
...chief threat to Stroessner is a colony of exiled Paraguayan oppositionists -a third of the population of 1,600,000 -most of whom live across the border in Argentina. In December they scared him enough to make him black out the palace, send troops to the frontier, get the Argentine government to impound two Beechcraft planes that seemed set to bomb Paraguay. In Buenos Aires, Paraguayan exiles announced that they were drawing up a list of "war criminals" to be executed "after the liberation...
...took spectrograms of the crater Alphonsus. While he was watching, he saw the small, central peak of the crater lose its sharpness and turn reddish. By the time he changed the plate to take the next spectrogram, the peak was white again but much brighter than usual. A third spectrogram showed the crater back to normal...