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Word: maneuverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Points are scored every time a player on one team laps a member of the opposing team. A "jam" is an effort to score a point and occurs when one of the faster men on a team is shaken loose, usually on a crack-the-whip maneuver, and tries to...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

The eleven convicted top U.S. Communists stood up before Federal Judge Harold R. Medina to be sentenced. For conspiring to teach and advocate forceful overthrow of the U.S. Government, ten of the eleven were sentenced to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine each. The eleventh got a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Penalty | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

In the first peacetime U.S.-Canadian joint air maneuver, 240 R.C.A.F. reserves worked from a defense control center with the U.S. Air National Guard. Every bomber was intercepted by the defending fighters before it got within range of its target. Limited and simple as the problem was, it demonstrated, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Operation Metropolis | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

The maneuver was one more small piece in the growing pattern of joint defense. Both Washington and Ottawa want a pool of officers and men who know how both services work. Recently Canada's Naval Air Group 18 finished an intensive three-month course at Quonset Point, R.I. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Operation Metropolis | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

All the trouble comes from an old, old statute on the Cambridge books which forbids parking after 2 a.m. in the morning. The Police Department defends the statute on the grounds that cars on the street at night are a hazard to the Fire Department, claiming that the firemen need...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Parking | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

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