Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers (Winston-Salem Journal and Twin-City Sentinel), became publisher and made them successful. A self-deprecating, earnest man, Gordon Gray is the rare publisher who can say, and sound convincing, "I consider myself a trustee for the community." He was 32 and the father of three boys when war began. He turned down a Navy commission, joined the Army as an officer candidate, served nearly a year as an enlisted man. Though he eventually saw service overseas in G-2 of General Omar Bradley's Twelfth Army Group, he considers his Army career "utterly undistinguished...
Hadn't Whittaker Chambers once said that his disclosure of the Communist conspiracy was like an act of war, like shooting an enemy? "You were comparing yourself to a soldier in combat?" asked Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker, in a mocking tone...
Shortly after midnight, 76 sweltering Puerto Ricans and five crew members jammed into a reconverted war-surplus Curtiss Commando twin-engined plane at San Juan, P.R. The first passengers aboard grabbed the leatherette bus seats in the middle aisle. The late ones squeezed into bucket seats along the walls. Five infants snuggled in their parents' laps. Pilot Alfred O. Cockrill of Pittsfield, Mass., late of the Naval Air Transport service, took off, headed northwest for Miami, on the way to New York...
Starting at 5 p.m., the 13-event meet is scheduled to be run off in an hour and a half. This is the first post-war renewal of the traditional series, which began in 1899. Each team has won seven times, with Oxford-Cambridge taking the last three meets...
...official announcement from Yale headquarters quashed the rumor that an observation train will follow the race this year. Before the war, a special railroad train used to run parallel to the river during the races, but the practice was discontinued because of the shortage of flatcars and the lack of wooden stands...