Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's press secretary, was hard put to hide his smile. Gravely he introduced the bespectacled, sunburned little man in the seersucker suit to the morning press conference at Key West, Fla. "We have with us today a distinguished contributor to the Federal Register" said Ross. As the score of grinning correspondents and photographers could plainly see, the contributor was Harry Truman, who pulled up a wide-armed writing chair, sat down and posed a gold pen over a Western Union press form...
...many places the peasants clashed with police; there were hundreds of arrests and nearly a score dead. Communist agitators were among the land-grabbing peasants; but most were moved by a genuine, desperate need. Italy, though greatly recovered under Marshall Plan aid, was still far from raising enough food for her teeming, fast-breeding folk. Yet about 4,000,000 acres of land, held by a handful of wealthy owners, still lay idle or were worked by antiquated methods...
Nevertheless, he gave his afternoon concerts to packed houses and almost all the oldtimers were there-Mrs. William Dana Orcutt, who has held the same second-row seat for more than 20 years, and a score of others, including Cabots, Coolidges and Saltonstalls who have held their favorite seats as long or longer...
While Actress Channing is a happily blown-up Lorelei, the script is a sadly watered-down Blondes; and the score is almost everywhere commonplace. Lorelei's less rapacious pal Dorothy (Yvonne Adair), after having all the life knocked out of her in the script, takes up a lot of dull romantic room in the show. And Dancer Anita Alvarez, who is always good for an eccentric specialty or two, is foolishly converted into a standby...
Georgetown's attack was led by a pair of fast forwards, Tommy O'Keefe and John Brown. The Hoyas played a tight defense, and held the quintet to the lowest score it has made so far this year. The Varsity Summary: G F P Gabler 1 1 3 Crosby 4 0 8 Rockwell 3 2 8 Smith 4 2 10 Stevenson 0 1 1 Prior 2 1 5 Hickey 2 0 4 Covey 2 1 5 Murphy 2 1 5 Stiles...