Word: togo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Wallace Irwin, 83, popular humorist of a generation ago, syndicated newspaper columnist and magazine writer, creator of Hashimura Togo and his Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy, light versifier (The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum), novelist (Seed of the Sun, Lew Tyler's Wives); in Southern Pines...
After only four months, the Russo-Japanese war was turning into a Russian disaster. Banzai-shouting Japanese troops were pushing the Russians back in Manchuria; Port Arthur was cut off; and the proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo. At that point in June 1904, Czar Nicholas II decided on a last, desperate gamble to relieve the Russian forces; he ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports...
...miles from Madagascar to the coast of Cochin China, despite 39 stops to repair tow lines, more than 70 engine breakdowns. And it was with oxlike fortitude that he brought his two wallowing columns into battle off Tsushima (literally Donkey's Ears Island). Maneuvering for position, Togo took his column through a perilous column turn and closed with nearly 500 guns blazing. The Russian ships, which had damaged three major enemy ships, failed to score a single hit after the first bloody half-hour. Only one Russian auxiliary cruiser-a converted yacht - and two small 350-ton destroyers made...
...Crusaders showed up determined to prove that the experts had underrated them all season. Playing careful, controlled ball, they set up their plays neatly, fed the ball to burly (6 ft. 4 in., 205 Ibs.) Forward Togo Palazzi, who scored 20 points for the evening, wound up as the winner of the tournament's Most Valuable Player award. Off the boards, spring-legged Center Tom Heinsohn (6 ft. 6 in.) consistently outjumped Duquesne's defensive giants, Dick Ricketts (6 ft. 7½ in.) and Jim Tucker (6 ft. 7½ in.), and as he warmed up, Heinsohn began...
...freshman team has a fine record to date. Of the eight games it has played, only two have been losses. An off night against B.C. produced one defeat, and Holy Cross start Togo Palazzi produced the other...