Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's case? Obviously, the plain speech of patriotic men could not be dismissed as the whimpering of a proud service which now saw itself reduced to a second line of defense. It was clear that the Navy deeply distrusted Secretary of Defense Johnson, who had fathered the big-bomber program when he was Assistant Secretary of War before World War II, and had summarily canceled the Navy's supercarrier without consulting the Navy...
...Press Club like to rub elbows with men of distinction. President Truman addressed the club once; so did Vice President Alben Barkley and General Mark Clark. The guest speaker at the next dinner, the members decided, should be Manhattan's urbane and ubiquitous Frank Costello, sometime bootlegger and big-time gambler...
...gambler tries to get the hero to toss the championship fight, and stuffs money in his coat pocket to urge him on, but the hero spurns him. On the big night at the Garden the hero is down on the canvas when he sees the gambler at the ringside grimacing at him to quit. This burns him so much that he leaps up and wins the fight, like that. Soon after, the gambler's goons throw the hero into the Hudson River, but he survives and goes to live in Germany...
...Crimson had taken the kickoff and pushed from its own 26 to the Army 38, defensive center Lynn Galloway intercepted a pass and the Cadets were started. Fifteen plays later Gil Stephenson, playing his first full game of the season, bucked over from the four-yard line. The big gains in this drive came on two passes by Arnold Galiffa, to Dan Foldberg and Jim Cain, and a 13-yard run by Karl Kuckhahn...
...game was rugged all the way, with post-whistle blocking, big pileups, and flaring tempers consistent features of the second half especially. Coach Blaik of Army said afterwards that he didn't consider the game too rough!" but Army was penalized 120 yards to Harvard...