Word: ace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hiri knows that he will be double-or even triple-teamed today, but he is used to it by now. The former Nigerian Olympic ace has faced stacked defenses most this season. Even so, he has racked up 19 goals in five games, including 14 in the last two outings...
...billboard, newspaper and radio. Whenever he arrived in a city-in Accra, Kano, Ibadan, Kumasi, Lagos and Enugu-huge crowds turned out to cheer him, including the "all-powerful" King of the Ashantis, King Nana Sir Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. The object of all this adulation was U.S. Trumpet Ace Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, on a gravelly-voiced West African tour last week designed to persuade Africans to drink more Pepsi-Cola. Admission fee to the outdoor concerts by Satchmo and his six All-Stars: five Pepsi-Cola bottle tops and 1 shilling...
...President sent a task force from the waiting Seventh Fleet into action. U.S. convoys escorted Chinese Nationalists toward the three-mile limit of Quemoy, and sent the Chinese the rest of the way in LSTs and LSMs. Overhead, Chinese Nationalist ace pilots, in U.S.-built planes, bloodied the Communist MIGs. Little by little, Quemoy was provisioned and armed to the beaches with 155-mm. howitzers, mortars and tanks. From Moscow, Khrushchev demanded the fleet's withdrawal on pain of an all-out war. But the U.S. naval escort, keeping carefully outside the international three-mile limit, maintained the needed...
...games, Ace Reliefer El Roy Face stalked...
...important Ivy League win. Terry Lensner, Bill Swinford, Nelson, Bob Pillsbury, and Messenbaugh among others constantly outplayed highly respected Indian forward wall and rushed quarterback Jack Kinderdine all afternoon. With the varsity pass defense still less than successful, the only was that the line could rush the ace passer...