Word: highpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an Edgar Rice Burroughs flavor ("You will bring death to the village. Samson is our warrior"). And sometimes it lapses into pure Hollywood (Samson to his mother: "Ummm, you're the best cook in Zorah, little mother"). A dialogic highpoint of some kind is reached when Samson, handed a javelin to do battle with the lion, cheerily assures Delilah: "I won't need it. He's a young lion...
House champion in the local intramural grid season, Eliot continued its football mastery by downing Yale's Saybrook College 8 to 0 Friday afternoon to provide the highpoint of eight House games, from which the Crimson emerged with three victories, four defeats...
...hyacinths, roses and lilacs. For paskha and koulich, the elaborate cakes which, with colored eggs, are taken to the churches to be blessed on Easter eve, white flour can be bought with ordinary ration coupons. (Nonbelievers also rushed for white flour to make festive cakes for Red May Day, highpoint of Communism's liturgical year...
...ability to make war; it has the same kind of job in the Pacific. G.I.s also have to protect $14 billion of U.S. property scattered around the globe. They have to roll up the bases. At home they have the job of keeping house and demobilizing their highpoint colleagues...
...minds, this was not good enough. In Manila, the news completed a breakdown in Army morale, started thousands of men protesting and demonstrating. In speech and pamphlet, leaders of the "Going Home" agitation struck out against "imperialism," "militarism," the big brass, War Secretary Patterson, Congress-even businessmen. Highpoint men threatened to "lie down" until sent home; 12,000 men booed an explanation of the slowdown offered by Lieut. General Wilhelm D. Styer...