Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year's efforts are to serve as any criterion of what Crimson bank-standers can expect, the Varsity has a harder pull ahead than tugging an II-foot sweep through the water. The lone victory in '46 was sweet, however, as they left a Yale crew far behind on the Charles...
...Stapleton was moved by all this, he said nothing. He is a shrewd politician who has worked in or for Denver since the turn of the century. In his five terms as mayor, he has pushed gambling and prostitution outside the city limits, completed the $50 million water system on which Denver's hopes for industrial expansion are based, fought for and built a municipal airport, encouraged tourist money and kept the city free of major strikes...
...undisciplined French athletes cannot be made to line up quietly, the ideal French starter is one who can surprise his runners while they are all bending down to tie shoelaces. The pudgy little starter at Le Tremblay last week was one of the best. Casually, as great globules of water dripped from his mustache, he engaged the girls in a long, rambling conversation about the weather...
Crackling machine guns, mounted-police charges and streams of icy water from fire hoses failed to halt the mob. Forty were injured...
Unlike oil and water, symbolism and realism can be mixed-but it takes a skilled hand. Ambitious young Novelist Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure) takes a try at it in her second novel, and doesn't bring it off. In parts The Mountain Lion is beautifully clear-a delicate, sharp story of childhood and adolescence. But it darkens toward the end, and winds up in a desperately contrived coincidence...