Word: weren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curley and Ted Williams weren't enough to make any city happy, Boston is now going all out in municipal coddling with a big, snazzy parking area under the Common, and more than ever it seems as though the College is on the wrong side of the Charles. Here, the battle for car space is fierce and unrelenting. Local policemen are tossing off tickets to violators faster than candidates for the Republican nomination utter cliches. But across the river, in what is swiftly becoming paradise on earth, Model Ts will nestle side by side with Cadillacs, in ample space...
...housing shortage," cried Harry Truman last week, "is almost a fatal one." He told the National Conference on Family Life a bitter little story about a man and his wife, their baby and dog who could find no place to live in Washington and weren't even allowed to stay in their car on a parking lot. Said Harry Truman: "Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of this country as is Wall Street andthe railroads, or any one of them...
Even without the draft to help them out, Navy is the logical candidate to win the Adams Cup tomorrow in the triangular contest over the Henley distance, The Middies have seven veterans from last year's formidable boatload, and as if that weren't enough, they have already turned in comfortable victories over both Princeton and Yale...
Eddie Davis' Jayvee players weren't very charitable hosts to their unfortunate visitors from Providence. Goalie "Mad Anthony" Ripley handled all shots with aplomb to gain himself a shutout, and just about everybody who had a chance scored a goal...
When Brigadier General Savage came down to take over the hard-luck 918th Bomb Group, he found an outfit whose morale and fighting efficiency were shot. They had seen too many of their ships and men go down and were pretty sure they weren't accomplishing a thing. Savage changed all that. He did it by singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such...