Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Republicans. Away for a fortnight's holiday at Jupiter Island, off Florida's east coast, went ex-Candidate Wendell Willkie, his future unknown and unannounced. To his 10,000-odd Willkie Clubs went the word that a respite from politics until mid-December was in order, then, for those with crusaders' stomachs, a new organization aiming at 1944. Probable new name: "We the People...
Last week along the Jersey coast the rain fell and the grey Atlantic heaved in a 15-ft. swell. But some freighter crews, some fishermen, rolling under bare steerage way, saw a sight that made them forget the dull, grey weather. They heard the thunder of engines, saw the mist ripped open by a trim, broad bow, saw a tiny boat skim by, skittering off the tops of waves, pelting through others in a burst of spindrift. On her bridge they caught a quick glimpse of hooded men, goggled, drenched with spray, hanging on behind a tiny windshield...
...Already there is talk of counter-attack by England. Yet it is plain that England can never dislodge the German octopus from the continent of Europe without American aid--millions of American men to fight on the beaches of Brittany and the Channel coast, as well as American ships and planes. And it is equally plain that this is just the role that America is being made ready to play--"when the time comes...
...touch side of things, the undefeated Kirkland sextet, fresh from a 5-1 win over the Bellboys yesterday, is fighting for the Harvard-Yale intramural crown with the Bulldog champs. Lastly, following out their traditional rivalry, the Gold Coast touch outfit has been challenged to battle by Saybrook...
...games under Tiny Thornhill last year, shaggy, shy Coach Shaughnessy had miraculously led the Indians to six victories in a row (over San Francisco, Oregon, Santa Clara, Washing ton State, Southern California, U.C.L.A.). Last week, when they met Washington, only other undefeated, untied team in Pacific Coast Conference play, it was do or die for the Rose Bowl. With only two more games to go, victory would probably mean a trip to Pasadena...