Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...army team in the service football ranks. His outfit piled up an impressive seven and one record, and the local brass invited it to spend a month basking on the Riviera and playing football as the "home team" for Nice. McCabe could go down with the team, or use his points to get a discharge. He decided to go home to his family and the wife he had married early in 1944. Ben came home on Christmas...
Tutors for Tommy. When he heard of Tommy's troubles, Jerry said: "I'll talk to him." He did that night at the family dinner table with two younger Conways-Terry and Neil-kibitzing. He ticked off Tommy's weaknesses: slow getaways, too much use of elbows, getting sucked out of position. "You got to get smarter," Jerry pounded home. Tim Sr., an Irishman who believes that athletics is the best thing that can happen to a boy, admitted that Tommy was lackadaisical. Under that kind of tutoring, Tommy soon perked up and played better...
...part of the deal, Alcoa agreed to let the rest of the industry use its alloy patents and several of its most important fabricating patents without charge. WAA thought that this put the industry on a competitive footing. But the Justice Department's trustbusters hit the ceiling...
...head of the Overseas Branch of OWI; as one of Roosevelt's speech writers for five years, he frequently lived at the White House, heard plenty and knew F.D.R.'s mind. Besides being on the inside track, he had a head start: the use of 40 filing cabinets of papers left by Hopkins...
...Student Council at its meeting last week voted to continue sponsorship of the Seminar by permitting use of its name, but specified it would assume no financial responsibility for the project...