Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, official U.S. observers had been confident that the combination of Communists and left-wing Socialists would be beaten. Last week they were far less confident. The sentiments of the Italian voters had not changed much; but the U.S. observers had found out more about those sentiments...
Middlebury, the winners of the Dartmouth Carnival competitions, promise to be the strongest team on the slopes. Dartmouth always looks as a threat, but the team has its goals set high, and wants more than just another wing over Yale...
...only doubtful starter is Shorty Minot, who is still bothered by his injured foot. Defenseman Charlie Coulter has been working out at wing on the first line as a possible replacement...
...Left wing Joe Kittredge, returning to the ice after a week's illness, paced yesterday's Crimson attack with two goals. The two teams square off again tomorrow in another return match...
...continued to suffer from the curse of his shyness; he self-consciously reports a search for "someone . . . with whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large and earnest." Never had Robinson known happier days; it is doubtful if he ever again knew such happy ones...