Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...which a year ago, in the integration fight, was battling for its life. At his insistence, high Army brass had even begun a fight to take tactical aviation away from the Air Force and put it back in the Army, so that it would be coordinated with ground forces as it is in the Marines. And the ranking Marine Corps officer in the Pacific, Lieut. General Lemuel C. Shepherd, was reported to be disappointed because Harry Truman had given MacArthur "only" a Distinguished Service Medal (his fifth) instead, of the Medal of Honor...
...Gloves Off. With the mayor's power in his hands, Impy managed to keep clanking effectively in his homemade shining armor. Last week he had the wit to jail hundreds of astoundingly puny hoodlums on the ground that they imperiled the sanctity of the polls. He announced that he had been forced to "take off the gloves." Tammany, he cried, was controlled, lock, stock & barrel, by Big Gambler Frank Costello, and Pecora was nothing but Costello's mouthpiece...
When the series resumed in 1946 Harvard scored a close 13 to 6 victory. The team overcame the Crusaders' decided superiority in the line and was able to hold in check the Holy Cross ground attack...
Last year the win over the Crusaders was engineered primarlly because of the slowness of the Holy Cross linemen. The Crimson threw only 11 passes and relied on ground plays to bring it the only pleasant moment of the long fall. Crimson v. Crusaders Harvard Holy Cross...
...soccer team overcame a two goal deficit to defeat Springfield, 3 to 2, on the Business School Field yesterday. Vern Drehmel tallied all three scores on center crosses from Ben Goldstein. The right side of the forward line ran the tight Maroon and White defense into the ground during the final periods...