Word: matching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Professor Karl H. Menges, 52, who has seen some wild places in his time, thought he was in a civilized country as he took his evening walk one night last week past Morningside Park, which borders the Columbia campus. Half a dozen teen-agers stopped him, asked for a match, then as he hesitated beat him over the head with a heavy board and knocked him bleeding to the ground. Professor Menges got to his feet, whacked out with his walking stick and sent them running...
...Negroes were moved to try again. The demonstrators got no help from local whites, and tension mounted. A pair of Negro youths, running from the cops, accidentally knocked an elderly white woman through a plate-glass window; a white woman and a Negro woman got into a hair-pulling match, and the town boiled over. In a sudden rush of business. Sears Roebuck sold 50 ax handles in 15 minutes. Sit-in demonstrators on their way downtown were met by a club-wielding mob. By the time the police got around to stopping the riot, Jacksonville was suffering from...
...satisfied with these elections," he said bluntly. "If the nation wants me to cancel them, despite the law and the limits of my constitutional power, I will do so." But he held out the hope that the Majlis would reform itself by "changing the electoral law to match conditions in democratic countries." A day later, Premier Eghbal motored to Saadabad Palace and turned in his resignation. At week's end it still lay on the desk of the Shah, who pondered how to soothe a popular unrest not seen in Iran since the fall of weepy, nationalistic Mossadegh seven...
...Australia turned the finals of the U.S. national doubles championship in Chestnut Hill, Mass, into an intramural match as Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson defeated Rod Laver and Bob Mark by the score...
...already opened in Los Angeles, and no other U.S. city can feel absolutely safe). Despite names like the Honey Bucket and the Purple Girdle, Greater San Francisco's six banjo bars are respectable, all-beer niteries with red-checked tablecloths. Says one waiter: "We'll match college degrees with any bar in town...