Word: beares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great shaggy bear of a man rose this week in Washington before a distinguished audience of hypersonic-flight experts to deliver the prestigious Wright Brothers Lecture. For Speaker H. Julian Allen of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the honor was well timed. That morning Avco Manufacturing Corp. announced that it had devised a blunt-nose cone for the Air Force ICBM Titan. Originator of the blunt-nose concept: Dr. "Harvey" Allen, one of the most brilliant and colorful of the nation's flight scientists...
...whispered commentary by Announcer Jim Britt. the games drum up genuine suspense, made somehow more tantalizing by the fact that the results are foreordained on film shot far in advance. But the producers have succumbed to only one request for advance screenings by a golf buff who could not bear the suspense. Dwight D. Eisenhower had seen all the shows before he left for Paris last week...
...heap if he ever takes up safe-cracking." His twin, Johnny, is a victim of the chaos and disorder which exist to be-wilder the precise mind. "Indeed," Mother reports, "if one of the beans on his plate is slightly longer than the others he can scarcely bear to eat it." The youngest child is fortunately only seventeen months old and only gurgles and smiles. His parents nevertheless have great hopes that he will grow up to be as eccentric as the rest of the family...
Simply snagging Crow for the Aggie team was a triumph for Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. John Crow had been tripping over college scouts ever since he made the first team at Louisiana's Springhill High School; he had offers of scholarships from Notre Dame to Oklahoma. There was so much activity around the Crow home that N.C.A.A. investigators kept snooping for under-the-table payoffs long after Coach Bryant's bird dogs had carried John David...
Mother's Money. But if bagging Crow was a triumph, losing him seems a tragedy. Bear Bryant, for one, is not even going to stay on at College Station, Texas to find out what football might be like without everybody's All-American. Bear is chucking a contract that has seven $15,000 years to run, and he is hotfooting it for his alma mater, Alabama U. The once mighty Alabamans have been having woeful times on the football field. "Say you heard your mother call," explains Bear Bryant solemnly. "If you thought she wanted...