Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beaver will play right fullback, and Chris Provenson will be on his left. Elliot Finkelstein will tend goal...
...Beaver, whose speed, anticipation, and tackling frequently made him a standout on defense last year, will play right fullback, and sophomore Chris Provenson, whose injured left foot limited his effectiveness yesterday, will play left fullback. Hank Blohm and Pete Moloy are the substitutes...
...Force Chief of Staff Nathan F. Twining and SAC Boss Curtis LeMay had warned that the Soviet Union might overtake the U.S. in airpower. But frankly, he disagreed with them. Some of the disagreement he attributed to honest differences of opinion, some to congressional misinterpretation, some to "eager-beaver" speechwriters of the armed forces. But he was sure that the U.S. has and will keep an all-important qualitative lead over the Russians...
Squaw and Pemmican Unite. David's pemmican is not a simple hunk of dried buffalo meat. It needs, for its perfection, to be compounded with thimbleberries, grasshoppers, elk marrow, pounded buffalo tongues, moose noses, beaver tails, fish fat, porcupine belly and otter blubber, not to speak of flies and maggots. Squaws, too, could be improved upon. But when Hero David meets a squaw whose bare bosom makes him think of a pair of "sun-darkened thimbleberries," the two passions of his career are united; he is a goner. To reassure critics of integration, Author Fisher takes pains to show...
...legitimate complaint about premature reporting. "Newspapers latch on to a morsel of partly cooked medical news and serve it up to the reading public in its raw state. Your new 'cancer cure' may be simply a study of enzymatic action on malignant cells until the eager-beaver writer gets wind of it. By the time he tries to present you to the readers as a latter-day Pasteur, your medical society is ready to drum you out as a snake oil salesman...