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...Himmelhoch defeated Bill Kaden of Adams in a tense match, 5 to 4. Kaden, using his height to best advantage, took an early lead by holding Himmelhoch at bay with his long arms. However, Himmelhoch, trailing 4 to 2, began to carry the attack to his opponent with repeated thrust and extensions. With the score 4 to 4, he brought the match to a dramatic end when he thwarted a flourishing attack and touched Kaden...
...poorest Chinese got equally good care, free, from medical missions. In between, tens of millions relied on the thousands of traditional and often secret herb remedies. For serious ills they might seek treatment by a doctor versed in acupuncture (TIME, June 2, 1952), in which special needles are thrust into the body at a specified angle and to a certain depth, and in surprising places considering the complaint (to cure headaches, the needle may be thrust into the great toe). Sometimes combined with acupuncture was cautery: searing the skin with burning wormwood leaves...
...World War II Konev commanded the north flank of Zhukov's famous counterattack which thrust the Germans back from Moscow in December 1941. Assigned to the Kursk front, he commanded the Second Ukrainian Army, which breached the German defenses and liberated Belgorod and Kharkov. In 1944 he won his greatest victory at Korsun-Shevchenkovsky, where in mud and blizzard his Soviet force encircled and destroyed ten German divisions. From there he went on to force the Dnieper, the Bug and the Dniester, and after liberating North Moldavia, his troops crossed Poland and became the first Russians to reach...
...arguments that have yearly been advanced against this plan do not counter the advantages it would have. Such assignments would neither throw freshmen into an uncongenial atmosphere nor destroy a House's uniqueness. Applicants, still choosing their own roommates, could not be thrust into a situation where they would be absolutely friendless. Individual spirit in a House is not created by students alone. Masters and tutors would still vary widely, each staff trying to express its own views and attitudes in the House program, each approaching the students from a different point of view...
...Wayward Saint (by Paul Vincent Carroll) is a St. Francis-like Irish canon, who-to his own and his bishop's distress -gets a name for sainthood thrust upon him. His noticeable talents for talking to birds, healing children and making plums grow on cherry trees have forced the bishop to banish him to a remote country parish. There, in the form of a worldly baron, appears an emissary of the Devil, panting after such a trophy as the soul of a saint. Under the baron's prodding, the canon begins to think he really is a saint...