Word: valleyful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Gannon will play in the Shriners' North-South football game in Miami's Orange Bowl on Christmas night, he indicated yesterday this would not interfere with his basketball. "I'll be able to play in all the games, including the Missouri Valley Conference competition," Chip pointed out. "We had planned to leave New York for Kansas City on the 26th of December, anyway, and now I'll just leave from Miami instead...
...writing behind the by-line has covered Harvard football for a Boston newspaper from the Valley Forge of Coach Dick Harlow's postwar informals right up to today's Yale game. Perhaps better than any other undergraduate he knows what has to be done to make a football team out of a group of half-a-ahundred first day candidates...
...last September, in California's Central Valley, Candidate Harry Truman made his political advisers wince with an off-the-cuff attack on hard-shelled Republican Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart. Said Harry Truman: "You have got a terrible Congressman here. He has done everything he possibly could do to cut the throats of the farmer and the laboring man." Some of his aides, remembering the lesson of F.D.R.'s purge, argued that personal attacks often boomeranged in favor of the target. But wherever he went, Harry Truman never ceased to "pour it on" Republican members of the 80th Congress...
...generals' attention was focused on the area round Suchow, key to Nanking and the Yangtze Valley, now threatened by 185,000 Communist troops under General Chen Yi. As one minister put it: "Manchuria is a limb that has been amputated. The body can live, despite amputation. North China is another limb, and even that may be sacrificed. But Central China is the Nationalist heart-and if the heart is pierced the body dies...
Camels & Crutches. The flat valley land on both sides of the road into Taiyuan was a forest of pillboxes of every shape and size imaginable to military ingenuity. While soldiers piled bricks to build more pillboxes, brown-skinned Shansi farmers worked unperturbed in patches of cabbage, surprisingly still green. Nestled close to the road itself was a rabbit warren of trenches. The road was clogged with a procession of laden camels, donkey carts, peasants carrying baskets on shoulder poles and others pushing crude barrows...