Word: beavering
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...hitter the first time he took the mound for the baseball team. He broke his brother's school high-jump record on his first try. And the fellow who really raised Terry's competitive hackles was a football quarterback from just down the pike in Beaver Falls, Pa., named Joe Willie Namath...
...with Joe. Since Terry had deliberately patterned himself after Baltimore's Johnny Unitas, the classiest-and probably the quietest-of pro quarterbacks, he wasn't sure that the other comparison was much of a compliment. So the biggest thrill of his high school career was beating Beaver Falls 41-21-scoring a touchdown in the process on an 82-yd. quarterback sneak. The film of that game, forwarded to Notre Dame by a scout, may well have been the one Ara Parseghian was idly viewing one day at South Bend when he suddenly started to yell...
Parseghian needn't have worried. In the first quarter, the savage Irish defense took out North Carolina Quarterback Danny Talbott, who limped off the field with a sprained ankle, then No. 2 Quarterback Jeff Beaver, who suffered a dislocated shoulder. Sticking to the ground in the face of a gusty 40-m.p.h. wind, Notre Dame's Hanratty sent Fullback Larry Conjar crunching through the line for a pair of touchdowns in the first and second quarters. Then, his injured arm soothed with cortisone shots, Hanratty delivered the bomb that the Irish fans had come to see. Down...
This slender memoir, written in 1958 but not discovered until Beaverbrook's death at 85 in 1964, is his insider's view of the crisis that shook Britain and at times threatened to topple the throne. The Beaver's main thesis, certain to be debated, is that some supremely powerful opponents of the King's marriage were not merely interested in blocking it, but in using it as a pretext for ridding themselves of a ruler whom they did not want. The leaders in this back-room plot, believed Beaverbrook, were Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin...
...Baldwin hoped to lift his own popularity by dumping the extremely popular King, the Beaver, who himself was a compulsive intriguer, never quite made clear. His case that Edward was the victim of some sinister plot is weakened because the author makes obvious that he was also using the memoir to carry on a vendetta against some of his own enemies. Besides Baldwin, Beaverbrook was particularly harsh on Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the Times of London, which vigorously opposed the marriage. On a couple of occasions, the editor of Beaverbrook's manuscript, Historian A.J.P. Taylor, drops a footnote...