Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stettinius denies that F.D.R.'s health weakened his bargaining voice: the President believed that the U.S. could wean the Soviet Union "away from dictatorship and tyranny in the direction of a free, tolerant, and peaceful society." At best it was a naive hope for a man come to trade with a proved champion of Lenin's precept: "Use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion, concealment of truth...
...writes novels only to feed himself and other Graveses (his wife; six children). But because he is one of the most talented and erudite men alive, he is incapable of writing anything that is not of some stature and interest. The Islands of Unwisdom cannot be compared to his best novels (I, Claudius, Claudius the God, Sergeant Lamb's America), but it yields a rich vegetation of outlandish history, and its narrative is skillfully knocked together by a carpenter who knows his nails and timber...
Princeton's team strength lay in its depth and power and not in passes and speed, although its attack contained a little of everything. Fullback plunges and wide end sweeps, the key plays in this pattern, were achieved with the best blocking seen in the Stadium all year...
...interference was at its best on the outside plays, on which there was time for three and sometimes four blockers to form before the play started moving downfield. It was physically impossible for the Harvard ends to break up all the interference, and the runner was often protected until the backer-up could slant across from the far side...
Jansen claimed that GOP leaders, "including Taft and Dewey" consider the HYRC the best Young Republican Club in the country and call it the "Republican West Point...