Word: tried
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny village of Tri Thon, a company of Communist soldiers, sleepily cooking their breakfast rice, suddenly found themselves surrounded by French commandos. In hand-to-hand fighting, knives flashing, 60 Communists were killed, the rest routed. In 80 other Viet Minh villages along a 14-mile front, the French surprise attack was equally effective...
...Trabert ranked twelfth in the U.S. This year, after playing a winter of basketball at the University of Cincinnati (Class of '53, majoring in political science), Tony has moved up fast in the tennis world. His 1951 record: the tri-state championship (over Talbert); the clay-court championship (over Larsen); the intercollegiate championship (over Earl Cochell); the Southern championship (over Jack Tuero); Davis Cup singles and doubles victories (over Japan). His only loss: the final of the Blue-Grey championship (to Tuero...
...pledge, Jeanne has just what the sorority wants: good looks, clothes, social poise, a well-to-do father, and a mother who was a Tri U herself and has never forgotten it. In the end, Jeanne, after seeing how Tri U snubs "social inferiors," is disenchanted enough to turn in her pledge pin and rush to the arms of a worthy young fellow (Dale Robertson) who, far from belonging to a fraternity, does not even own a tuxedo...
...treatment of Tri U's tribal customs and cruelties is competent, though overdrawn. It gives the sisters a hard time, while taking too tolerant a view of the system's true culprits: the parents who let them grow up that...
...Tri-Cities named Captain Ed Smith its top college choice in the annual draft by National Basketball Association clubs. Smith played on the varsity for three years and toured with the College All-Star team this year. His coach, Norm Shepard, predicted that Smith will make an excellent professional player...