Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Twelve minutes ahead of schedule, the President, his son, Lieut. Colonel John Eisenhower, and John's wife Barbara climbed aboard the sleek orange-and-silver jet. With a final wave, Ike was off for the first leg of his 22,795-mile trip, to Anchorage, Alaska. Seven and a half hours later, he touched down in Anchorage to a welcome by Governor William Egan...
Most Africans have to find jobs as well as attend school, for only a few have scholarships or wealthy parents. Explains Geoffrey Adumah, 39, who is taking his final bar exams: "In Ghana we have big families because we have more than one wife. Family members band together to send the brilliant one to London to study and improve himself. But it is not always enough. For myself, I have to work as a kitchen helper in the evening. I'm in a lawyer's chamber in Middle Temple in the day. I study in between...
...final day, with the U.S. leading 3-2, the cup appeared won when U.S. Team Captain Janet Hopps took the first set 8-6 from Angela Mortimer, led 4-2 in the second set. But the British girl pulled hersen together just as the American was racked with an attack of cramps. Angela ran off nine games in a row to win 6-8, 6-4, 6-1, tie the score at 3-3, and put the cup up to a final match of doubles between Janet Hopps and Dorothy Head Knode for the U.S. and Christine Truman and Shirley...
...take six in a row and the set, 6-4. In the second set, the Americans won the first three games, only to have the British rally again to take the lead. Five times the Americans fought off match point. It was well past 8 p.m. when the final shot gave the British the set, 9-7, the match and the Wightman Cup, a rose-filled gewgaw that had been tethered by a rope on a windswept sideline during the two days of struggle...
Freudian Slip. In Dallas, on a final exam, a Southern Methodist University coed misspelled a word but otherwise correctly identified the fifth precept of Buddhism: "Do not be unchased...