Word: wreathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week when they defeated Eliot; while Dunster copped the touch football crown by defeating the Deacon outfit 6-0. Although there are several games yet to be played, the Funsters are undefeated in their seven League touch games, which gives them enough points to walk off with the Laurel wreath, while the Deacons' undefeated booting record definitely places them at the top of the House heap...
Seldom does a lineman get credit for winning a football game--but the wreath for Saturday's crushing 23 to 7 win over Brown can be placed securely around the neck of Chub Peabody, who beyond a doubt satisfied his claim for All-America honors and a place beside the Hardwicks, Woods, and Ticknors among the Crimson football immortals...
...speaker was finished, and the last wreath had been placed on the tomb of the newer Unknown Soldier. The bugler was sounding taps as Vag, shivering a bit from the damp which had penetrated his light reversible, left the enlarged Arlington National Cemetery. Outside it all seemed so unreal--Vag wondered if he had had a vision of the future or a nightmare of the past...
...people of France, by order of Vichy, were forbidden to celebrate Bastille Day, the hallowed festival of French democracy. But in the ancient city of Caen, Normandy, an automobile sped to the Franco-Prussian War memorial. A man uniformed as a French officer jumped out, placed a wreath on the memorial stones, made a quick getaway...
Last week angry Nazis joined the French police in hunting the wreath layer, described as "one of the most active De Gaullist agents" in Caen. Nazi-controlled Paris-soir said he was an Englishman, Jean Hopper, whose mother, wife and daughter are in a concentration camp...