Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promised, the Times tucked a plump, 34-page back-news supplement into an early issue-two pages for each day the paper had been down. The supplement was a blend of hoarded obituaries, old news and old weather reports. Prepared daily while the strike was in progress, stuffed into separate big envelopes (coded Alice, Betsy, Carol, Diana, Edna and so on down through Queenie) against the day publication was resumed, this running rehash avoided the obvious temptation to correct day-to-day judgments in the light of hindsight. On Dec. 27 the Times filed away a story-later proved false...
...strategy workout with Gonzales, displayed to dressing-room interviewers a pair of underdrawers decorated with gorgeous women. "This way I never run out of girls," he grinned. In voluble Spanish Gonzales suggested Olmedo's strategy: keep the ball low on the wet court, use lobs to drive Cooper back from the net, move around to upset the Aussie's second service. It worked. Charging to the net, the Chief forced the attack, punched his volleys accurately, won 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6. Almost single-handed Alex Olmedo had won the Davis...
...dormitory, eat a special diet. Practices are conducted in semi-silence, save for an occasional tongue-lashing directed by Rupp at a player who is not giving his all. "Boy," he will holler sarcastically, "give that ball to someone who knows what to do with it." To another: "Go back in the stands and read your press clippings...
Playing Together. After a defeat, Rupp has been known to order his players to keep their uniforms on until the crowd has left, then send them back on the floor to iron out the mistakes they had made in the game. There is seldom an outstanding star on Rupp's fast-breaking, hard-running Kentucky teams. Rupp does not believe in them. "If the star has an off night, the whole team has an off night." he explains. Says North Carolina's Frank McGuire: "Kentucky has found the secret of basketball, that it's five guys playing...
...touched responsive chords. By last week J.B. was one of the hottest tickets in town, and requests for seats are pouring in by mail at a rate of nearly 500 a day. Advance sales have zoomed to $250,000, and weekly profits top $10,000; the play will earn back its $125,000 production cost in about three months...