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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally untalented team. Princeton only used two lines during the evening, and defensemen Mo Cheston and George Morris rarely left the ice. The varsity used no less than 17 men, as Coach Cooney Weil-and broke up the second line midway through the game to put Les Duncan back on defense, and skate Dick Reilly with Paul Kelley and Mo Balboni...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Fischer's Four Goals Lead Six to Victory Over Princeton, 5-1 | 3/5/1959 | See Source »

...Forbes made sure on his second rebound at 12:15 after Dick Reilly carried the puck into the zone and shot from the right alley. Forbes' first rebound was just stopped by Tanner, but Crocker Snow fed back to the right wing for the goal...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Terriers Edge Sextet In Third Period, 3-2; Marquis Scores Two | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

Then, late in the fourth period, Yale blocked a Wood punt and recovered on the Crimson 45. Booth gained five yards, and on the next play he completed a pass deep in Harvard territory. After three running attempts left the Bulldogs short of a score, Both dropped back to the 12 and split the uprights with the three-point kick that ruined the Crimson's spotless record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

...physician rages against God; a girl he loved when they were both children died before she reached adulthood.* The plot devices through which he is brought back to religion are soapy and soporific; it is enough to mention that Lucanus pays a call at the imperial court in Rome, where the Empress Julia, rouge-breasted and panting, urges him to orgy. But at the last minute, Lucanus begs off. whereupon nasty old Emperor Tiberius realizes that he is the first decent man to show up in Rome for years and gives Lucanus a dandy ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Purple Passion | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...schnapps-tippling, aristocratic Aunt Natasha and Natasha's long-ago lover Boris, a trainer of circus horses. The dance of liberty soon slows to the shuffle of Red Cross soup queues, even though the gallant trio refuses to indulge in the occupational pastime of unhappy refugees-back-biting the hand that feeds them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iron Curtain Raisers | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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