Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowell nosed out Kirkland 9 to 8 on a nip and tuck baseball game yesterday afternoon, after the contest had been limited to five innings by mutual consent of both managers...
John Jacob Astor, grandson of Mrs. William Astor, grande dame of the original Four Hundred, failed to make the grade. But ex-Wife Ellen Tuck French Astor made it, so did half-brother Vincent...
...plum tree flooded with white birds, the clean curve of a plow as it comes dripping from the earth, the tuck-tuck of mah-jongg tablets, the faltering steps of a blind man on a moonlit night, Chungking in the mist, the whistle of unseen leaves-all these, in Payne's record, are as ineluctably part of China's life as the suffering, corruption, brutality and terror bred by foreign and domestic wars...
Senator Harry Flood Byrd's Democratic machine rumbled through Old Virginny last week. Snuffing out some leftist opposition, it safely assured its own man, Lieut. Governor William Munford Tuck, 48, of getting the Governor's chair. Thus, if ailing Senator Carter Glass, 87-who has not answered a roll-call in three years-retires or dies, his successor will be a hand-picked Byrdman...
...Tuck. In San Pedro, Calif., a dog snapped at Private Michael Zanick's gun and holster, hung on until the gun went off, blasting Zanick's toe. In Manhattan, Mrs. Marie Zollinger leaned over to tuck in the bedding, was shot in the chest by the rifle her husband kept under the mattress...