Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Marvin Alvey came to his senses slowly. He sat up, dizzily, discovered that his face was caked with blood, and that his left ankle was broken and swollen. He was cold. The wall of a mountain canyon rose above him, and a red airplane lay smashed on the rocks beside him. He began to remember what had happened...
Northwestern's unbeaten, unscored-on footballers nervously pulled on their togs. A sign on the wall in Evanston's Dyche Stadium was meant to be reassuring: "You are as good as the next guy. [He] pulls his pants on one leg at a time, too." It was small comfort: the beef-trusters (up to 250 Ibs.) in the Minnesota dressing room wore much bigger pants...
...Hand. In Leeds, England, police finally caught up with Burglar Robert Wooldridge, 94, after he had 1) cleared a four-foot wall, 2) jumped off a 14-foot embankment, and 3) scurried off into some bushes...
...meeting Saturday, the Alumni Association directors followed the report of the Saltonstall Committee, which recommended that "the names of the men lost in World War II be inscribed on one wall of the Memorial Church adjacent to that of the first World War Memorial, a project which the Committee believes could be carried out with great dignity, simplicity, and beauty...
...forward wall is not to be depreciated either; while they are not much bigger than most of their ilk, they are fast enough to run interference for such men as Win Scott. All this adds up to a defensive problem for the Crimson, for fast-breaking plays can easily spell the death of a team which has already displayed many imperfections in this department...