Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & early on Thanksgiving morn, as usual, the poor man's hunting season got its start in North Carolina. Short-legged, flop-eared beagles sniffed into brush-piles and thickets, set up a howl when they flushed a rabbit, worked it back before the hunters' guns. Some wistful old rabbit hunters were willing to settle just for the music of the hounds' high-pitched cry; others set their mouths for rabbit stew. The guns blazed away...
About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses' big rumps while his old man did the shoeing. Little Joe never actually worked at his father's trade. But he grew up to have his old man's squat, thick-knit build. And in the politician's trade, which Joe Martin took up, he worked somewhat in the manner of a blacksmith-a nail here, a nail there, working most of the time close to the ground...
...trick was to keep the offense off balance, mix up their blocking assignments. Michigan's defensive quarterback sometimes called for a four-man line with five backers-up. Some defense-happy coaches even thought that the unstoppable T-with its emphasis on speed, deception and "brush blocking"-was on the way to being stopped by equally unpredictable defense. But so far, the scores of a good many top T teams (among them, Notre Dame and Army) did not yet bear them...
...have noticed that the boys from the Necco factory annex down the river have used up the ten minutes allowed for liberal arts courses by taking time to squawk about the name of a bridge. It is not enough that they have the Tek Tooth Brush and the Gillette Tech Razor (and who can deny the utility of these gifts of science). Now they want a bridge...
Totals of Monday's Law School registration, released yesterday, added up to a record with 1,723 men, the largest student body in the school's history. 340 of these students are entering for their first term, with only five less returning from service after a few weeks' brush with Blackstone...