Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania's Republican Governor James Duff thought the party ought "to shed some of the aloofness we have." Harold Stassen was blunt. "The Republican Party is in a bad way," he said. "It is sort of like a football team sustaining a crushing defeat after having advanced the ball to the five-yard line." What Stassen thought the party needed was "a tremendous lot of rebuilding...
...Bouncing putty," developed while Rochow was at General Electric, is an off-spring of silicone experiments. It is now used in golf ball centers and in table leg casters that find their own level in half an hour...
...optimistic assumption that Germany, under four-power control, would be administered as an economic unit. After it became clear that Moscow would block unification, the West stopped further capital shipments to Russia (she did receive some equipment, including a Daimler-Benz aircraft factory and part of the great Kugelfischer ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt). The U.S. began to realize that wholesale dismantling provoked resentment among German workers, and seriously interfered with German-and therefore with West European-recovery, which was the West's supreme objective. In other words, dismantling was making Germany anything but "safe...
Before 97,239 fans at Ann Arbor last week, Ohio State's Jim Hague tried for a vital fourth-quarter point after touchdown. The kick was wide, but after rival Michigan was called offside, Hague tried again and this time the ball went squarely between the goal posts. That tied the score, 7-7, and helped Ohio State finish the season as co-champions (with Michigan) of Western Conference football. It also guaranteed the Buckeyes a trip to the Rose Bowl...
...that so many ball players had to be included when men like Bob Mathias, Charley Justice, and the members of the California crew are conspicuously absent...