Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, Finney sliced yardage off the Crimson ends in great chunks with the pass option play and Choquette bore down relentlessly on the middle of the line in a 33-7 rout of an injury-riddled Crimson eleven. Today, injuries have not taken such a toll on the varsity, though halfback Tom Lawson has been sidelined with a week-old leg bruise. Linemen Jim Keating and Chuck Papalia both are bothered with stiff necks and will be used sparingly...
...found time to chat about everything from the future of Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy ("He has done much for his party. I don't think his religion [Roman Catholic] will affect his national aspirations") to his preference for sports over political TV shows ("I find them a bore-the shows like Meet the Press...
Warning Flag? Both Russians bore out Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' press conference forecast that Geneva's prospects looked dim. Some Western experts, said Dulles, thought they knew why. Their theory; the long, friendly talks about nuclear-test inspection systems between U.S. and Russian scientists at Geneva last summer ''opened the eyes of the Soviet Union to the fact that our own knowledge was considerably greater than theirs about nuclear weapons. They realized that they were considerably behind in this matter, and therefore they lost interest in the suspension...
...that a serious question arose. Would it be able to develop a fighting spirit? Concerned by such matters, West Germany's Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss last year permitted the German General Staff, banned after two world wars, to come quietly back to life. It bore a new name: the Führungsstab, or "leadership staff...
Critic Olin Downes once noted that Tebaldi's strapping Mimi bore little resemblance to the fragile figure Puccini and Murger conceived her to be; but he added that Tebaldi sang so movingly, with such tragic overtones, that her "enlarged portrait" emerged as more compelling than the original. The same thing might be said of most of her famous roles: in the end, a colleague notes, "they always come out Tebaldi...