Word: thirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a scoreless second quarter, the varsity tied the count at 8:35 of the third period on a perfect shot from 10 yards away by inside John Hedreen. Soon after, coach Bruce Munro sent Ekpebu to wing in place of Sweeney and put Keith Lowe at center. With Ekpebu, Sweeney, and Lowe shifting often, the varsity offense picked up noticeably...
...issue of Berlin as the major threat to peace. Again and again the President refused to be led down the semantic path to a discussion of such generalities as disarmament and trade. Again and again he brought the conversation back to the Russian threat to Berlin, until, on the third day, he got Khrushchev to agree to a removal of all vestiges of ultimatum or threat on Berlin negotiations...
...marginal" parliamentary constituencies (those carried last time by fewer than 5,000 votes), where all political observers agreed the outcome would be decided. The Tories were counting on prosperity and genial Harold Macmillan's undeniable personal popularity to help them "turn the hat trick," i.e., win an unprecedented third straight general election victory. But in the marginal constituencies, where national personalities and national issues were not likely to prove the deciding factor, Labor seemed to be staging something of a comeback...
Another election imponderable as the race tightened was the weight of the third-party vote. "Get out and get in," cried Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond to the candidates his party dispatched to fight in some 200 (out of 630) constituencies. The Liberals slugged hardest at the Tories' Suez failure and at "police state" colonial methods in Kenya and Nyasaland; they were also the only party campaigning for British membership in the European Common Market. Grimond & Co. did not expect to add more than half a dozen parliamentary seats to their present six, could only hope to exert real...
...Thus, 19 years ago, Winston Churchill hailed the pilots of the R.A.F.'s Spitfires and Hurricanes, which day after nightmare day in the summer and autumn of 1940 rose up to defy the waves of German bombers boring in on Britain. And ever since the war, on the third Sunday in September, Britain has commemorated The Few with an R.A.F. flypast over London. Traditionally, one Spitfire and one Hurricane have led the way for a formation of the modern jets that have replaced them...