Word: pro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand of the individual Council members on the final votes is as follows: Pro: Council members Bornstein, Burke, button, McCormick, Peterson, Tyson, and Unverferth. Contra: Brynteson, Carter, Craig, Mulholland, Poskanzer, and Sandler
...doors. Most working people-unlike those who consider themselves middle class-use the back door to come & go, reserving the front door for important occasions like funerals. If the canvassers found a front door opening stiffly and creakily, they were sure of finding a worker's family and pro-Labor sentiments behind it. But if the door moved easily on smooth-worn hinges, they were apt to find a lower middle class family and Conservative sympathies...
...years at hard labor-went to 55-year-old Arseny Bore-movich, who admitted that he was "slightly guilty": he had done a bit of spying for Moscow, and during the war had sentenced 24 Yugoslav partisans to death while serving as a judge in Yugoslavia's pro-fascist Ustashi courts. The Russian Orthodox priest, Alexei Kryshkov, got 11½ years, plus the "loss of civil rights" for four years. He had confessed to writing reports for the Soviet embassy in Belgrade which were afterwards used in Radio Moscow's anti-Tito broadcasts. The only woman defendant, Ksenia...
Coach Alfred Earle ("Greasy") Neale has no time for false modesty. He admits that his Philadelphia pro football Eagles are good-so good, he blandly says, that not a single member of Notre Dame's current glamour team could make his starting eleven. They were 1948 National Football League champions and are well on their way to repeating this season. This week, with a record of nine wins and one defeat, Greasy's nifty Eagles squared off against an old and bitter foe, the New York Giants...
...Rough. Seldom had pro football seen such a superbly integrated gang of old pros-and Greasy Neale, 58, was the oldest pro of them all. "I won't sit next to him on the bench," cracks Van Buren, "he's too rough." Greasy runs the Eagles with the casual despotism of an old athlete who can never quite forget that he was a fast, elusive end at West Virginia Wesleyan, where he got his nickname...