Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Baron von Cramm lost to Donald Budge at Forest Hills. Same year, TIME-covered Wallace Wade's football team-Duke-lost the Southern championship to North Carolina. In 1938, TIME-covered Golfer Johnny Goodman, favorite to win the British Amateur, was put out in the early rounds, and booted both his Walker Cup matches-to boot. In 1939, TIME-covered Tom Harmon was stopped cold by Illinois...
Stockholm is one of the few cities in Europe which has not as yet felt the imprint of the Nazi spiked boot, and its modern architecture, as exhibited in a series of photographs on display at the Germanic Museum, proves that the Swedes have made good use of their freedom...
...bench, nose bleeding from earlier action, came Normie Cameron to boot the winning point. The center snapped the ball, Cameron kicked, a low aerial that zoomed off the hand of an opposing lineman, flew high in the air, came down, hit the crossbar and bounded over for the winning point. This was enough for a victory, and the Bunnies trotted off with a hard...
...Valley Serenade" does have all that and more to boot. Sonja Henie, in addition to her solo winter sports carnival, proves to be no slouch at parlor games and turns in a first rate romantic performance. Playing a Norwegian refugee adopted by Miller's band as a publicity gag, Sonja falls for pianist-arranger John Payne. He, however, is already somewhat attached to torch singer Lynn Bari. The torcher oozes more sex appeal than the skater, but she's a dub in the snow. So Sonja gets Payne out in the open and love soon finds a way to leave...