Word: ground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soldiers, sailors, policemen cheered lustily, carried their former Chief off the parade ground on their shoulders. Later, the Colonel went to his campaign headquarters, a place filled with bodyguards, publicity men, secretaries, photographers and Latin spellbinders who are set to ballyhoo for Batista all over the island. Candidate Batista has been endorsed not only by the Nationalist, Liberal, National Democratic and Realist Parties, but also by Cuba's Communists...
...neither red-baiting nor crimping the freedom of speech. For their unimportance in numbers -- merely a seventh of the total membership -- the Y.C.I., has had authority within the Student Union far in excess of its democratic privilege. Skilful infiltration into key posts has enabled them to hold their ground although far from representing majority opinion. And yet the blame for Communist leadership cannot be placed on their shoulders. They are only too eager to carry the load of committee chairmanships and organization. With their lack of cohesive force, liberals have drifted in countless directions and allowed the privilege of their...
...Fiercest ground fighting was at Suojärvi, northern end of Finland's upper defense line in Viipuri Province (formerly Karelia). Here the Russians evidently advanced in close formation for the Finns told of shooting down two entire companies (800 men) with "machine pistols," a Chicago-type sawed-off machine gun, reputedly capable of 250 rounds per minute. A Finnish soldier, speaking over the radio, said: "I don't believe the Russians are used to us seal shooters. Compared to a seal's head in the water, they [Russians] are almost too big a target. You hardly...
...Leading ground-gainer among college footballers was Michigan's big, well-nosed Tom Harmon. In eight games he totaled 1,356 yards (868 on the ground and 488 in the air) for an average 169 yards a game, average six yards a play...
When NBC officials threatened recently to deprive sardonic Composer Deems Taylor of his free tickets to the broadcast, on the ground that he "didn't like Toscanini anyway," he blasphemously cracked: "I admit Toscanini was at the Last Supper, but I insist that he did not sit at the head of the table...