Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing was on the wall after the first event, with a medley trie of Hob Branard, Chuck Hoolzer, and Stove Wise each contributing part of a half tank final margin. In the 220-yard freestyle, Jerry Gorman of the Varsity was more than a match for last year's distance ace, Ted Norris...
When the crowds arrived, streets and alleyways were littered with dead, and there were more to come. A young girl wriggled out of one blazing window on a sheet rope, started, catlike, toward an aerial ladder two floors below. Suddenly she lost her footing on the wall, turned gropingly in the lurid light and let go. "I knew she'd hit that marquee," muttered a spectator. Another body hit a wire over; the marquee, spun and hung by the neck for a moment, then plopped down...
...open and amatol mines falling out, it swerved and hit a child, crumpled into a tree, and exploded, blowing the two occupants into tattered shreds. Several houses on both sides of the street collapsed as the mines went off. All that remained of one Arab-style villa was a wall with a torn picture of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism...
...wall map was dotted with red, blue and white-crossed blue pins. Each represented a U.S. television, FM, or educational radio station. A short, wiry young man looked at the map, remarked: "A lot has happened in the past five years, and a lot more will happen in the next five." The speaker was Charles Ruthven Denny Jr., 34, whom President Truman named last week as chairman of the seven-man Federal Communications Commission...
...Gets the Cash With the bogy of John L. Lewis looming big and black over bearish Wall Street, the market for new stock issues had seldom looked colder. But General Motors Corp., hard up for ready cash to carry out its $500 million reconversion and expansion program (TIME, Nov. 18), plunged in anyway, found the water was not as cold as it looked. G.M.'s new issue of $100 million of preferred stock, largest new-money preferred issue of all time, was snapped up in short order last week. In a few hours, the stock ($100 a share...