Word: falling
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Freshmen who elect soccer as their fall sport are required to report three times a week, but may attend practice every day. In order to give all members of the squad a chance to prove their worth, there will be no cuts on the squad. To give all Freshmen the opportunity to play competively, the system inaugurated last year of dividing the players into teams, thus forming an intramural league, will be continued again this year...
Next task of an attack from the north is to neutralize the flanks for a southwesterly drive. Northern French Indo-China has been penetrated economically and to a large extent militarily merely by bluff, following the fall of France. By a combination of bluff and force, it appeared easy to subdue the only other important Indo-Chinese ports: Cam-ranh Bay, which is not so strong as the French had advertised, and Saigon, which is negligible. The Japanese have already softened up Thailand by an appeal to racism-and might be further bribed by the return of Siamese territory...
Last week U. S. campuses began to reopen under the shadow of war. Not a few jittery college presidents had feared that defense jobs and impending conscription might induce some students to drop out. Counting their fall enrollments last week, most colleges found them close to normal. An exception was huge University of California, which had 15,342 students, 700 fewer than last year, and blamed...
...auction off a prizewinning black Angus steer, Michigan's State Fair counted on doddery, dirt-farming Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. At the last moment superstitious Governor Dickinson, who is up for election this fall, begged off. Reason : the last four Governors to auction off prizewinners were subsequently defeated...
...Boston, he consulted a colleague and friend, who told him, with "affectionate abstinence from any expression of sympathy," that he had leukemia. Looking out at the white sails on the Charles River, Zinsser realized that he was going to die. A great lover of life, he began soon to fall in love with death...