Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...April 1, 1950, the Board of Governors refused to reconsider the actions of its curriculum committee; this made the terminations final. At the same time, however, the Board stated that it had confidence in the A.A.U.P. "as an active cooperating professional organization with the Board...
...Communist-run government of postwar Poland behaved as if the cession of the disputed territory (including coal, iron and grain-rich Silesia) were final then & there. It brutally proceeded to expel more than 5,000,000 Germans from their old homes. (These bitter refugees now crowd Western Germany...
...first to blow was Rookie Mackey. Unnerved by his gallery of 6,000, he took a seven on the 4th, heading for a shaky 81 and a final tournament standing of 26th place. He was not the only one to go. Veteran Sam Snead had been losing stroke after stroke on the greens. "I'm puttin' as though my doggone arms wuz broke," moaned Sam. As the incoming scores went up on the huge scoreboards, other topflighters began to slip: Jimmy Demaret (149 for the first 36 holes), Al Brosch (151), Lawson Little (153). But iron-nerved...
...test came on the third day. Not since his accident had he played a full 36 holes in one day. With a grim smile, Ben went to work. The morning round left him two strokes back of Lloyd Mangrum's leading pace. In the afternoon, going into the final four holes, he needed par golf to win by two strokes. Tired and sagging, he could not quite make it. He missed an 18-inch putt on the dogleg 15th. On the 17th he lost another stroke by trapping his tee shot, settled for a three-way tie with Mangrum...
...first full mile, Middleground's 18-year-old Jockey Willie Boland hung just back of the pacesetter and bided his time. Headstrong Hill Prince shot into the lead despite Jockey Eddie Arcaro's tight hold ("He got away from me") and held the pace up through the final turn. Then, with a bare 250 yards to go, Hill Prince faltered into the ruck...