Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without a brilliant performance by goalie Charlie Flynn, who turned in 42 saves, Princeton might have clinched the game in its scrappy second period. The Crimson's usual sore spot, its blue line unit, again could not ward off opposing attacks and usually only Flynn's cautious play was able to keep the varsity within reach of the tiger's brief lead...
...case of a resident who is considered to be hiding something or is "not frank enough," casual visitors will call on him, each using a different form of approach. These visitors, assigned by the police, may consist of Youth Corps League members, party members, unit chiefs, members of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, activists from peasants' or workers' organizations. This will go on until the man is cleared or arrested. Said a middle-aged housewife who came to Hong Kong a few months ago: "You people outside always pity us for our short rations, dirty rice and scanty...
Weyland at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, to the $600 million-a-year research and development plan under General Tom Power, the range of Air Force activity has never been equaled by any military unit in peacetime history. And this year the Air Force has entered upon a fantastic new era of supersonic flight that dawned even before the fantastic old era of transonic flight seemed fairly begun. These are the keys to the U.S. Air Force today: its range and its change...
...Cambridge Quartet made the crucial jump from the status of four good musicians playing together to a finely coordinated unit in its second concert. Sunday's recital clearly showed the group's improvement. The entire program was well-polished and particularly impressive was its playing of Haydn's Quartet Op. 20 No. 5 which had the restraint and stylization necessary for "the father of the Quartet...
...intention of giving them up. Acting does not give him the chance to express everything that is in him. If and when his popularity subsides, many a studio will be glad to get him as an executive, and one has already offered him a production unit of his own. Meanwhile, Bill is making the most, in a practical way, of his powerful position. Last year he traveled 135,000 miles for Paramount as an "ambassador of good will," selling Hollywood-and Bill Holden-in 16 countries. This year he will hit the road again: from Paris to Moscow, Cairo...