Word: cellars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nowadays, when every bent fender and skinned knee becomes a statistic, American look at things differently. Hundreds of posters warn Junior about leaving his roller skates on the stairs, and the man who keeps oily rags in his cellar is little better than a criminal. Under the aegis of the National safety Council, the mass media have combined to produce a state of safety pyschosis...
...Part of the trouble was the expense of green fees, and inexperience with the sports. But the biggest limitation was the unwillingness of most students to add the time burden of playing and practicing for a team to the hours spent commuting. As a result, Dudley finished in the cellar of the House league, although nearly 150 men took some part during the year. Lest the figure be deceiving, only a small core of about 20 men were able to spend time consistently with the squads...
...Forest bloodletting and the defense of Luxembourg. Gathering 200 French irregulars around him, he negotiated huge allotments of ammunition and alcohol and assisted in the liberation of Paris. Hemingway personally liberated the Ritz Hotel, posted a guard below to notify incoming friends: "Papa took good hotel. Plenty stuff in cellar." Commander of the Chain. The postwar Hemingway settled into another good hotel, the Gritti in Venice, to write "the big book" about World War II (a draft is now finished). But a piece of gun wadding went into his eye during a duck hunt and started an infection that doctors...
...League basketball games and finished in last place. The varsity won twice in each of the last two seasons, but failed to improve its placing. This year there is a new coach at the L.A.B. and some promising sophomores, but they may still find it hard to open the cellar door...
...Robert Lawrence Layne, a blond, bandy-legged Texan with a prairie squint in his narrow blue eyes and an unathletic paunch puffing out his ample frame (6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs.). Layne, a T-formation specialist, led the Lions out of the National Football League's cellar, called the plays and fired the passes that won them the national championship in 1952 and 1953. He is currently doing his bruising best to repeat that performance. As of this week, the Lions have been defeated only once (by the San Francisco Forty Niners...