Word: balling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera buffs, she is known as the star of several fine recordings, including Madame Butterfly (RCA Victor) and Capriccio (Angel). As Verdi's consumptive heroine, she demonstrated last week that her acting is almost as good as her voice. Strikingly handsome in a hoopskirted, bare-shouldered, pink ball gown, she made the Violetta of Act I into a moving figure of feverishly hectic gaiety. As the opera progressed, the coquettish attitudes gave way gradually, until by the final act Violetta emerged as a woman of tragic stature. Throughout, the radiant, controlled voice lent a superb air of emotional conviction...
Dawkins soon found that U.S. football and rugby are as different as chalk and cheese. Rugger players wear no padding, kick on the run, cannot block downfield or throw a forward pass. When a back is tackled, he must release the ball so it can be put back in play by the nearest man. Playing for Brasenose College before a handful of fans scattered through bare wooden stands, Dawkins at first pulled a tyro's gaffes. He kept up a steady stream of American-style pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement...
Still, Dawkins could pass the stubby rugby ball laterally with an accuracy that amazed the experts, and when he set out for the goal line on a "try" (good for three points), he simply ran powerfully over or around anyone who got in his way. Critics cautiously pronounced his "swerve" deceptive, his "jinking" promising...
...They dropped three men back on him when he got a pass, stalled when they got the ball, but no trickery tried by the champion Boston Celtics could stop the Minneapolis Lakers' agile, husky (6 ft. 5 in., 230 Ibs.) Elgin Baylor from pouring in 64 points to give his team a home-court 136-115 victory, break by one point the scoring record of the National Basketball Association set in 1949 by Philadelphia's jump-shooting Joe Fulks...
...Yardlings opened the scoring then with a beautiful play in which Kinnney handed off to Hobie Armstrong, who headed around right end on a reverse, suddenly stopped, and flipped to end Ron Bonebrake in the end zone. Taking advantage of a few breaks and continuing to move the ball well, the Crimson scored again on a Kinney to Taylor aerial...