Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another political group, the American Independence League, entered the fray last night with a statement accusing both the Peace Rally Committee and the Anti-War Committee with "attempting to monopolize peaceful sentiment for partisan ends...
...mind, concludes: ". . . today, more even than in 1917, war threatens American interests. The only thing that can check it is an overwhelming victory of the Allies and the defeat of Germany. The United States must obviously face the possibility that it may find itself forced to join the fray as the only way in which it can protect its own interests." This sounds a note the people of America have heard before...
...gang of blackmailers. Under famed Managing Editor Oliver Kirby ("O. K.") Bovard, who retired two years ago, the Post-Dispatch tore into municipal corruption whenever it could be found, in 1937 won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing election frauds. Last week the Post-Dispatch was again in the fray...
...were going to put up a real fight before being toppled from their throne. Princeton's last move was a 1 to 1 tie with Yale (probably on about a par with Harvard), but the Vaughanmen should rate a slight edge over Clark Hodder's squad in tonight's fray. The tie with Yale was not necessarily a letdown for the Tigers; the Elis have been dogged with costly injuries throughout the first part of their schedule, and their opponents have been anything but soft touches. They too, will be primed for the Harvard encounters...
...ejected on personal fouls after but 16 minutes of play, carried far too many offensive guns for the small Feslermen. In addition, the Green defense was very tight, limiting Harvard's serious scoring efforts to a flurry of baskets by tireless Captain Charley Lutz late in the fray...