Word: charleyism
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Most of the Crimson regulars managed to start in spite of asorted sprains, Bruises, and charley horses. With very little substitution possible, owing to a dearth of reserves, most of them finished the game dead-tired...
...Russia's Olympian Igor Kashkarov (who cleared only 6 ft. 10½ in. to finish third at Melbourne) claimed a jump of 7 ft. ¼ in., western trackmen began to wonder what was going on. The seven-foot barrier, which had once tripped everyone but California's Charley Dumas, seemed suddenly to have shrunk...
...While the Giants' backfield deployed far to the rear to bat down long passes, beefy Giant linesmen crashed through to rush Quarterbacks Brodie and Paul Hornung. In marked difference between pro experience and college eagerness, the college quarterbacks tried to run and were smeared, while the Giants' Charley Conerly refused to budge when rushed, coolly ate the ball and waited for the next play...
...settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances by two of their oldest, saltiest veterans. Ben Agajanian, 38, Giant kicking master for seven years, stepped delicately onto the muddy field to score a three-point field goal. In the second quarter, Quarterback Charley Conerly, 33, master of the wet ball, passed the pros into a 10-6 lead...
...Harry Truman, that he felt as if he had been hit by a ton of bricks.* Like Truman, he was a faithful member of an old political machine, was picked as Vice President on straight party considerations, and seemed no man to fill his predecessor's larger shoes. Charley Garcia, 60, was expected to serve out the remaining nine months of Ramon Magsaysay's term, and then agreeably take a comfortable political sinecure...