Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the country, citizens took their own emergency measures. They exhausted store stocks of ear muffs, mittens and long underwear. They used electric toasters for heat, and dragged wood-burning stoves out of the barn...
...running up & down the Midwest for ten years. One night last week, a record 11,216 people pushed & shoved into Kiel Auditorium; 3,000 more were turned away. The crowds wanted to see unbeaten St. Louis U. playing Holy Cross, a storybook basketball squad that practiced in an old barn, traveled 40 miles to Boston to play its "home" games, and became 1947's team of the year. Holy Cross had been beaten only once in 29 games...
Presiding over R.F.D. America is Joe Kelly, a veteran quizmaster (Quiz Kids') and radio hayfoot (National Barn Dance). Wearing a violent plaid shirt, overalls and straw hat, and spouting wheezy barnyard jokes, Kelly is the only jarring note among the soberly dressed, well-scrubbed men & women who participate in the show...
...little time for sightseeing or the movies. Many made a beeline for the American Royal Livestock Show, which ran concurrently with the F.F.A. convention. Others stuck to the convention agenda, listened to speeches by Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson and British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, and frolicked at a big barn-warming party, where they shucked corn and sweatily swung their partners in old-fashioned square dances...
Thirteen Words. "In the days when I played, the opposition were bastards and barn-burners," Crisler says. That kind of approach, he considers, is now as outdated as the iron men. His pep talks are delivered in midweek. He boils down the basic difference between offense and defense to 13 words: "On offense, it's poise, finesse, determination. On defense, it's fury, fight, utter abandon." He gives his "offense unit" one kind of indoctrination, his "defense unit" the other. Crisler even has a "point-after-touchdown" unit-including a specialist place-kicker and seven of the biggest...