Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary line play. Suddenly, he broke away, and swept down the field behind beautiful blocking to the Bellboy two yard line. From there, Howie Gleason powered over through center for the score, and the Culliton to Hurley combination that has been clicking for extra points all year, rang the bell again...
Today' workout was the usual Thursday afternoon drill, with the emphasis, as it has been during the week, on punting under pressure and pass plays. MacKinney's kicking was outstanding, averaging fifty yards per boot despite the wet bell and sloppy footing, while bespectacled Don McNichol's handling of he slippery pigskin during the passing practice was little short of sensational...
...Dwyer, personally no Tammanyite, opened his campaign, like a devout boxer who crosses himself before the bell rings, by formally disowning Tammany (see col. j). Unfortunately all his powerful friends looked like Tammany to many a New York City voter: Alfred E. Smith, Bosses Ed Flynn and Frank Kelly, Jim Farley, Christy Sullivan (the nominal Tammany leader). Certainly Tammany considered O'Dwyer its candidate. O'Dwyer tried to take the war issue out of the campaign by seconding the President's foreign policy. But to his ranks flocked Coughlinites, Bundsters, Isolationists, America-Firsters, anti-Semites, Roosevelt-haters...
...R.A.F. last week laid low the myth that U.S. aircraft manufacturers cannot build fighters fit for World War II. The first R.A.F. squadron equipped with the first U.S. planes designed for full fighter duty in Great Britain tried out its wings. The ship was Lawrence D. ("Larry") Bell's Airacobra...
...m.p.h. bracket, a 1,000-mile range equaled by few European single-engined fighters. Ahead in many ways of anything in the air, with its clean design and high aerodynamic efficiency, the Airacobra is likely to get bomber-escort jobs in its packet of missions. While Builder Larry Bell and U.S. air chiefs awaited further dope on the 'Cobras' performance, Britain's Airacobra pilots were anxiously waiting to get into a scrap that would supply...