Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brooklyn, where fans had settled into a morose "wait till next year" mood, the Dodgers came to life. By last week's end, after winning twelve out of 15, they were only two games behind, and Flatbush was in a resurrection frenzy. When the Phillies moved into Ebbets Field for the last two games, the Dodgers took the first...
...lids raised, the pain of my eyes forgotten, immobile and scarcely breathing, my head bent forward till my eyes were scarcely above the lip of my trench, I watched him. This was no error, no trick of the night. This was a Hun-a living and spawning Hun, in snow suit and hood, crawling on his belly toward...
...Export-Import Bank has assigned $150 million for our credit ... to be applied to railway improvements, highways, agricultural works including irrigation, and the expansion of electric power and communications."* The news of the biggest single U.S. loan to a Latin American republic in five years, kept secret till that moment so that Mexico's President might have the satisfaction of announcing it, fell flat. The audience seemed to miss the significance of the statement. Alemán looked disappointed...
Well, You See, Judge ... In Vancouver, B.C., Robert Merkle was sentenced to a year in jail for breaking into a cafe, despite his contention that he I) stumbled against the window, smashing two panes; 2.) entered "to leave my name and address"; 3) "was looking in the till for a pencil" when caught. In Chicago, John Moore, charged with trying to filch a policeman's wallet, explained: "I was sleepy, and my hand just kept moving toward his pocket...
...blasted from a Long Island cradle, set course for Europa, waited till we were about six hours away from Earth's gravitational field, then cut over to Biggs's velocity intensifier, using which we could look forward to setting foot on Europa within two days at the most...