Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apple-achin') and converged on the secluded hilltop estate of Joseph Barbara, a beer distributor known to be high up in the underworld. His curiosity pricked by the procession of strange Cadillacs and Imperials, an alert state cop called agents of the Treasury Department's Alcohol Tax Unit in Albany. Surrounding the 53-acre estate, policemen halted 63 carefully tailored men-some at a roadblock, others fleeing through dense woods-and asked them who they were, where they came from and why they had come to Apalachin. After questioning, all were released...
After a rocky first five minutes, the Crimson held an 8-7 lead. Four minutes later, however, the varsity was ahead 22 to 15. The second unit entered the fray shortly thereafter and kept piling it on, building the Crimson margin to 44 to 20 by halftime...
...varsity's lineup was virtually the same as has played all season, with Dave Grannis, Bruce Thomas, and Dave Morse on the first line; and Snow, Forbes, Bill Beckett and Jim Dwinnell alternating on the second. Tom Heintzman, Dean Alpine, and Ted Ingalls made up the third unit; and the Crimson defensemen were Graney, Dave Crosby, Bob Anderson, and Greg Downes...
...Even before her family moved to France from Poland when she was seven, she was already attending the Warsaw Opera Ballet school. Ten years later when the Nazis overran France, Lydia's father Wladimir became a Resistance chief for the French underground's F-1 foreign-born unit, and the 17-year-old Lydia became an invaluable spy. Each day she played the role of an ingenuous, admiring schoolgirl watching Nazi troop movements; at night, from the Lipskis' Pigalle apartment, "Cipine" radioed her findings to London. Handy with pen and brush, Lydia...
...Oort are not sure how to interpret their observations. They suspect that the hydrogen disk at the center of the galaxy is rich in stars, but they cannot see them. The stars and hydrogen, they say, are presumably held together by gravitation and revolve more or less as a unit. The outstreaming hydrogen beyond the ring is hard to explain. They calculate that at the present rate of flow, all the hydrogen should have been drained from the nucleus in a mere 10 million to 100 million years, which is only a tiny part of the life span...