Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young (33), Yale-educated Bill Block inherited the paper from his father, the late Paul Block, in 1941.* He has been trying to cut its ties to the Republican Party and make it an "independent" paper ever since. Bernhard is a calm, competent veteran who came up the hard...
...when the weight at the end is deflected enough to touch the circle it completes a circuit, and a polite little sign on the scoreboard says "Tilt," or in the case of one popular machine using a Western theme, "Yipee Tilt!" Even this device is often insufficient however. A veteran "fifty-mission-man" can hit the machine vertically and bounce a ball back up the playing board without tilting it. Another technique, still more refined, is bodily lifting the whole machine and propping the front legs on the player's feet or a brace of matchbooks; this will tilt...
Despite its loss to the Crimson, Dartmouth is rated a slight favorite. The veteran Indians, hampered early in the season by a lack of ice, snapped out of their slump on January 22 against Yale, and have since gained successive wins against Boston University, Boston College, McGill, and Princeton...
From now on the three writers and three researchers of the Canada section will join forces with their opposite numbers of the Latin America section to turn out The Hemisphere under Senior Editor Francis Brown, a veteran of 15 years with the New York Times. Brown, who makes frequent news-gathering trips to both Latin America and Canada, was decorated recently by the Government of Chile for his journalistic contributions to hemispheric unity...
...Veteran reporters demanded proof. Miel Asquia waved a paper at them. A reporter from Noticias Graficas grabbed it, examined it minutely. Sure enough, it carried the names of such party stalwarts as Mercante, Hector Campora, chief of the capital's Peronistas, and Miel Asquia himself. Every newspaper in Buenos Aires, including Señora Perón's Democracia, reported that Article 77, which forbids two successive terms for Presidents, would go unchanged...