Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saturday, January 9, was a disastrous day for the athletic teams representing Dartmouth College. The basketball, track, hockey, squash and swimming teams wee all defeated in intercollegiate competition. Following on the wake of a somewhat disappointing football season, these defeats portended dreary winter for the many rabid fans following the fortunes of Dartmouth in the athletic world...
...Eisenhower a typical extrovert; in times of crisis, American voters generally favor the introvert. ¶In the fall edition of the magazine Forecast, Technical Editor Irys Vorel wrote that the stars indicate an Eisenhower victory. Said Editor Vorel: "We feel the Libra-scales are going to tilt a little wee bit toward the Eisenhower side and that ... he's going to win by a nose." ¶Onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President John W. Davis, who declared for Willkie in 1940, joined up with Democrats for Eisenhower because "corruption . . . carelessness, complacency and favoritism in Government circles demand a change...
...Black (15-4), Brooklyn's 28-year-old Negro rookie relief pitcher, made the third major-league start of his career, facing Yankee Ace Allie Reynolds (20-8). Strong-armed Pitcher Black worked carefully and gave up only six hits; Reynolds gave no more. But Jackie Robinson, "Pee Wee" Reese and Snider belted homers that beat the Yanks...
...might rain a wee bit tomorrow, but then again it may only shower. Winds seem to be blowing up from Dixie...
...last week, Prime Minister Winston Churchill uncorked a rare exception to the formula. As his new Minister of Health, one of the toughest jobs in the government, he appointed Iain Macleod, a wee but peppery native of the Scotch-bibbing Western Isles who is only 38 and has barely completed two years in Parliament...