Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edinburgh's International Festival of Music and Drama was three years old, and finally big enough to be spanked. Last week, with this season's final performances, the critics' hairbrushes were flying...
...arrival in China's Communist capital was the big act in an intensive Communist drive to win friends for Soviet Russia. She is chairman of the new Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, now getting top play in China's Communist press...
Denied other halls by the government and by leary landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...
...newest of three Negro regulars now on the Dodger roster, Newcombe is also the hardest of the three to handle. On the road, Catcher Roy Campanella and Second-Baseman Jackie Robinson take turns sharing the big, moody rookie as a roomie. When he is his normal, placid, taciturn self, they needle him up to ballfield pitch. They soothe him when he gets upset and threatens to get out of line...
...play "43" becomes "45." If the defense shifts heavily to the "play" side, he may shout "Cancel," whereupon the quarterback calls "Opposite," and the play hammers at the other side of the line. Obviously, Notre Dame tackles need to be quick-witted as well as big...