Word: ace
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Take Him, Trap Him. The Webbs, of both Tennessee and California, still teach by Old Sawney's terrifying "trapping method," a cross between musical chairs and a spelling bee. Seating his boys in order from ace to dunce, Old Sawney fired questions down the line. Anybody who muffed an answer had to trade places with the boy who got it. Feet on the desk, string tie awry, white-bearded Old Sawney hollered encouragement: "Take him on it, trap him, next-next-next...
...flame, Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson (TIME, Jan. 21), Pappy drummed his stubby fingers, listened to his letters offered into evidence: "Dearest Cuddle Bum. . . . Baby, what a bundle of love is coming to you. . . . Honey, will you still love me if I never get to be America's leading ace...
That was Charlie's time to show his ace in the hole. What he wanted, he blandly revealed, was the sum that Transamerica Corp., aging A.P. Giannini's vast holding company, had offered him and his colleagues. (Transamerica's deadpan explanation: "It has very good earnings and it is a well-managed company. We want the stock for an investment.") National, according to an agreement, has the right to match this offer...
...powerful forehand drive from the baseline to subdue his younger opponent with little trouble. Only once in the entire match was Brady able to win a game on his own service, while Fox's supremacy was threatened only in the early stages of the second set when the Freshman ace battled on even terms for the first four games...
...love conquer shady politicking? To this burning question, Mr. Ace's plodding plot finally provides a predictable answer (yes)-after considerable stilted dialogue and wooden acting...