Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster threatened on two occasions in the first half of its game with Eliot; but not until the third period could the Funsters break through the stubborn, big red wall to score. Jim Aldrich carried off-tackle at midfield and galloped 45 yards to the Elephant five. After two plays had moved the ball to the one-foot line, Chuck MacDonald cracked over for the game's only touchdown...
...Evening Standard ran a bitter cartoon by David Low showing an aloof U.S. ploughing "the lonely furrow" straight across Orr's carefully cultivated world food field. And a Daily Mirror artist savagely crucified an agonized male figure labeled "World Hunger" on two skyscrapers marked "Wall Street," captioned his cartoon: "I thirst . . . and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it to His mouth...
...armies has convinced many doubters that China can be unified by military means-as Chiang the Soldier had argued. In Nanking, both generals and politicians-who have not always agreed in the past-were talking of being able to clear main rail lines south of the Great Wall within three months. The generals had told Chiang they could take Harbin at any time...
...civil war fought to some kind of a decision. Without communications, China cannot survive, and today the plain fact is that until one side or the other clears those railroads, there can be no effective communications. . . . With Nationalist forces in control of the main lines below the Great Wall, with cities free, some measures of recovery can go forward. Continued Communist guerrilla warfare will not permit the Government to relieve a long-suffering people of an overheavy military burden, but it will at the least mean unity...
Hard-running by the Lowell backs and hard-charging by the Lowell line spelled defeat for the Puritans, who were unable to halt the co-ordinate Bellboy attack, which operated almost exclusively on the ground. On the defense, the black-shirted Lowell forward wall constantly thwarted the Winthrop T formation plays, so that the Puritans were forced to take to the air for their first two downs. Only once during the game was Winthrop in Lowell territory, that coming as the result of a recovered Bellboy fumble...