Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bookkeeper in code, I can assume that the ninth letter should be S, but can figure no more. Since bookkeeper is the only word in the English language that has ten letters, six of which are consecutive doubles, if it is code, that's what it stands for. Wait a minute! I think I've found a constant relationship! Set the two up for easy comparison, thus...
...Boston, and his bride, Champion Discus Thrower Olga Filcotova, 24, the pride of Prague, sailed happily into New York harbor, down to "our last 35?." Exclaiming on the beauties of Fifth Avenue's shop windows, Olga was quickly reassured by her mother-in-law: "This is nothing. Wait until you see Boston, the seat of all culture...
Bing Crosby's languid baritone drifted through the University of Omaha field house-"drifting and dreaming, while shadows fall." The brawny, crew-cut young men in T shirts and gym shorts couldn't wait for the shadows. A boulder-built (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) wingback named Jerry Hunter sidled up to a hulking (6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs.) Negro tackle named Al Brown and asked: "May I have this dance?" Another time, another place, and Hunter might have earned a poke in the teeth. But this was Physical Education 251, and Tackle Brown minded...
...Canadian government's responsibility and behavior when the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee revealed in 1951, and again last month, that Norman had associated with Communists as a 28-year-old student at Columbia University. Why, demanded the Montreal Gazette's Arthur Blakely. "did the government wait for six years to deal openly and candidly-and even then not fully-with the security questions raised in Washington in 1951?" As early as February 1940, Blakely reported, "an undercover agent relayed to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police the information that the new Canadian Foreign Service officer [Norman...
...varsity had to wait until the top of the eighth to score the winning marker, again without the benefit of a hit. After Cleary walked, Simourian tried to sacrifice him to second, but the Cadet first baseman muffed the throw, advancing Cleary to third. Hastings drove him across with a tremendous sacrifice fly to center...