Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while one brother was playing at Williams and another at Yale, young Jerry was having a field day. Dad and seven other Conways (including Tommy) watched him break loose on a 50-yard touchdown run against Nichols School. That wasn't all: three times more he carried the ball across the goal line, as University School won, 32-0. A long-jointed broken field runner who used his blockers well, Jerry has scored 17 touchdowns this season, to lead all of the Cleveland area schoolboys. In the family, he is regarded as the best of all the Conways...
...hand (automatic pistol); in a Washington police station while being questioned about bad checks. Powell reached his peak in the 1936 World Series when he hit .455, went into a permanent slump four years later after he crashed head-on into a wall while chasing a fly ball...
...ranging from table manners and cookery to the knottier intricacies of proper behavior for divorcees and the correct way to address a letter to an Archimandrite of the Greek Orthodox Church ("The Very Reverend Archimandrite"). Cold-toned, it tries to sell etiquette purely as a civic virtue. "Think of ball games," raps Author Fenwick (who obviously never does) "without a conventional seating system. Whenever egos touch . . . common sense demands a system. [Etiquette] is essential to the amenities of civilized life...
Then, with ten minutes gone in the first period, the Varsity caught fire. Every time it got the ball it made a sustained march. The trend started in the first half; in the second half it was more than a trend; Brown no longer had a chance...
...minutes before the game ended the freshmen scored again after halfback Warren Wylie had raced 40 yards to the Brown three-yard line. Tom Ossman carried the ball around left end to score standing up, with Walsh again kicking the point after touchdown...