Word: clefts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Badgered by a bad back, and no longer able to throw the long ball, cleft-chinned, curly-haired Quarterback Ronnie ("Golden Boy") Knox, 24, quit the Toronto Argonauts in Canada's rugged Big Four, thereby put an end to one of football's most unfulfilled and peripatetic careers (three high schools, two colleges, four pro teams), which had largely been botched by the boisterous stage-mothering of stepfather Harvey Knox. "Football is a game for animals," said Ronnie. "I like to think I'm above that." Dreaming of higher things, Ronnie allowed he might toss...
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...Cleft Stick. The Reds struck back. Despite the monsoon rains that were pouring down, sweeping away airstrips and flooding the valleys, Communist-led Black Thai tribesmen, trained and equipped in North Viet Nam, last month invaded the remote northern Laotian provinces of Phongsaly and Samneua. Slipping expertly through the suffocating jungle, the Red guerrillas surprised one small Laotian army garrison after another, inflicted 300 casualties on government forces and captured several villages lying astride the classic invasion route into Laos from the battle-renowned village of Dienbienphu...
...Vientiane, Phoui ordered a roundup of top Laotian Communists, including the biggest of them all, Red Prince Souphanouvong, nephew of Laos' ailing, 74-year-old king. The royal Laotian army, though hampered by a communications system that in forward jungle areas consists of runners carrying messages in cleft sticks, slowly succeeded in reconquering most of the lost villages. Early last week Vientiane reported that the bulk of the Communist forces had apparently withdrawn, leaving behind 1,000 men "to conduct political activity and prepare for the next action by Communist troops...
...black wig glossed by the footlights, the cleft-chinned, still slender actor moved across the stage with lithe vitality. In turn he flashed from eye-rolling jokester to grimacing pighead, from egotistic Roman hero to slack-jawed outcast. The actor: Sir Laurence Olivier, 52, first knight of the British theater and probably the greatest living English-language actor. The play: Coriolanus, William Shakespeare's least popular major work. The stage: Shakespeare Memorial Theater at Stratford on Avon, where critics are only too eager to fault the stars. But on opening night last week they agreed with the capacity crowd...