Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political future of Peru. One was soft-spoken José Luis Bustamente Rivero, the moderate-minded poet and law professor who was elected President last June when leftist parties swept Peru's first really free election. The other, who probably did most of the talking, was leonine Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, boss of Apra (People's Party...
When the Germans took Paris, they melted down statues of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, many another prize Paris sculpture. The bronze went into Nazi cannons and tanks...
Fresh from their high-tension 39 to 37 revenge victory over Yale on January 16, the Stahlmen will be looking for their eighth triumph in nine starts, Holy Cross being the lone victor. But the Jumbos, led by Captain Bob Skarda and his well-trained push shots, may well prove a stumbling block; two of the Crimson's thirteen defeats last year were suffered at their hands...
...Administration. An affable, self-deprecating man, he is part court jester, part speech writer, part handy man. On the side, he is also vice president in charge of public relations for the Home Insurance Co. and a director of 22 corporations, some of them controlled by smooth, smart financier Victor Emanuel. He said he would probably have to give up most of these private jobs...
...contest will get this super-combination: a Bendix washer, a two years' supply of nylons, a 1946 Mercury, a Knabe piano, a $1,000 fur coat, a round trip to New York with a weekend at the Waldorf, a Tappan kitchen range, a Crosley Shelvador refrigerator, an RCA Victor radio-phonograph, an Electrolux vacuum cleaner, a Bulova wrist watch, a $1,000 diamond ring, maid service for a year, two complete men's wardrobes, a two-week vacation in the Canadian Rockies...