Word: californian
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Californian who swam the English Channel faster than any woman ever...
After disposing of a couple of California hopefuls in the early rounds, Ham beat New Jersey's Pablo Eisenberg,† 18, with 6-1, 6-1 ease. In the final, against Californian Whitney Reed, 17, he won again...
...when he won the U.S. junior tennis title. But since then he had become rather a nebulous character who seemed to pop up in a lot of European tournaments, never showed up much at home. After his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1945, the big Californian had settled down to enjoy life on the Continent. Last year the U.S.L.T.A. left him unranked because of "insufficient data." By last week, however, Budge Patty had given the U.S.L.T.A. enough data to upset their statistical applecart...
...found a telltale trickle of water seeping out of a crack in a spanking-new cylinder block. There was no time to change engines, so the mechanic did the next best thing: he filled the crack with metal sealer, slapped a coat of paint over it, then gave Californian Johnnie Parsons the bad news...
...think it is the greatest honor in the world simply to be a citizen of the United States," said he. The President remarked indignantly that his morning mail had included a postcard from a Californian who thought that Americans should "surrender to Russia" because it would be better for them to lose their freedom than lose their lives in a war. "Now what do you think of that?" the President exclaimed. "That is Patrick Henry in reverse, if I know anything...