Word: chalk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his boys go to the dressing room at halftime, Crisler lets them rest for six minutes. For the next five, he explains with chalk and blackboard what changes have to be made in their tactics. He does it without dramatics. If Michigan has a big lead at halftime, Crisler always asks, as his players set off toward the field: "What's the score?" The proper answer, delivered in unison: "Nuthin' to nuthin...
This was bad news for the U.S. economy. With steel mills humming at 97.1% of capacity, highest since June 1944, the industry was ready to chalk up a record peacetime production year. To keep the mills running at the present rate of 84,000,000 tons a year would require about 17,500,000 tons of scrap in the next six months...
...broke however in the third canto when three different Jumbo backs crossed the double striped chalk line into the end zone. Austie Lyne opened the deluge, sweeping around end for six points and the first touchdown...
...perhaps the unfortunate few who take the printings of the Metropolitan press seriously, the football game last Saturday was fought, as most football games are, from sideline to sideline. Close post game inspection revealed no dents in the concrete and only a few widely scattered scuff marks in the chalk boundaries...
...lettering. Like most propaganda art, Shahn's suffers from sameness of theme, but sometimes it offers a concise pictorial report as well as a message. Shahn learned to draw the hard way; when he was growing up in Brooklyn, the local toughs used to make him draw chalk portraits of their favorite athletes on the sidewalk. Accuracy was imperative, and Shahn never forgot the lesson. Although Shahn's use of color has gradually become so arbitrary as to verge on artiness, his draftsmanship is often realistic and clear...