Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...held off. Every day the small Nationalist air force (30 B-25s, P-51s and Mosquitoes) roars from the blacktopped airstrip at Haikow across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...
Many fishermen are responding. Under the guns of a Nationalist naval flotilla (a few destroyer escorts and smaller patrol craft), they are bringing their boats to Hainan. The Communists are smarting. "Landing operations," admitted a recently captured Red field order, "may be delayed...
...half the student body had had sexual intercourse and generally more than "once or twice." Fraternity men (62%) were apt to be a bit more experienced than non-fraternity men (45%). One out of ten Yalemen was either married, engaged, or going steady. The rest liked to play the field, except for a lonely 8% who dated hardly...
...time for the quarter: 60.3. That was just about what Wilt had counted on. He couldn't afford a slow pace. Because he lacked the kind of speed that allows a man to burst into a blazing "big kick" finish, Wilt held to the strategy of keeping the field stepping along so that no one else could save up for a big kick. He let out a notch, moved into second place and then brushed by Ireland's John Barry to grab the lead...
...rapid decline in the value of the dollar after World War II, as additional causes of the questionable financial future of the professional schools. He also mentioned the School of Public Health as being "in a precarious position," and added that "the importance of investigation and education in this field requires no comment." Fundraising for the school he said, has so far only been temporarily successful on year-to-year basis...