Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, the freshmen came early. In a cold drizzle, four upper classmen with big "Ask-Me" badges on their coats waited impatiently on the station platform for the 9:03 to round the bend. Among its passengers would be the first wave of the Class of '53. The train was half an hour late...
...mutinous uproar at South Bend, buildings seemed to tremble-but none crumbled. All that happened was that Notre Dame, operating from Leahy's new T, became more devastating than ever. In 49 games, against the most rugged opponents that could be found, Leahy's T-men rolled up an awesome record of 42 victories, 4 ties, only 3 defeats. Last week, Coach Leahy bared a few of his T-secrets and coaching tricks in his new book Notre Dame Football-The T-Formation (Prentice-Hall...
Knees & Yeast. What all the most promising new cinemactors have in common is acting ability. "What these new girl starlets have in common," cracked one Hollywood whip last week, "is that they all bend their legs at the knee as they walk." Few of Hollywood's young actresses seem to have the yeast it takes to rise into the big dough. That yeast, says MGM's Casting Director Billy Grady, is a compound of "beauty and bitchiness." A pinch of acting ability can help...
...faith in reverse which, in pretending to deny religion, "is a full-blown religious commitment." But it is a tragic failure. Example: the Communist, whose atheism begins as a declaration of independence, plunges into a new slavery "to a worldly demiurge crazy for human minds to bend and bow and yield . . . the blind god of history...
Like most retailers, the Grand Leader Store of South Bend, Ind. had been bucking a deep depression in appliance sales. One week in July it sold just six refrigerators. But the following week it sold...