Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strap and he had hung head down, helpless. Next morning two of the flyers found him still hanging there. They cut him free, wrapped him in his parachute, and put him in a bed of spruce boughs; but they themselves were too weak to get him down the cliff...
Cornell grabbed a five-point lead early in the game but some aggressive defensive work by Bill Hickey and Cliff Crosby, coupled with the rebound play of Ed Smith and Captain Bill Prior, checked the Big Red spurt. Except for the lapse in the last few minutes, the varsity's defense was fairly tight, forcing Cornell to the outside, but at the expense of 22 fouls, on which the winners collected 17 points...
...ever-loving wife (Joan Tetzel) and two movie-perfect children. But he goes on a binge and is exposed to the mature blandishments of Barbara Stanwyck, who gets him involved in a nasty murder. Corey is disbarred and Barbara dies in an auto accident over the convenient Hollywood cliff that has served as the execution block for many an offender against the Johnston Office code...
...squad, turned out to be chief play-maker, and Gerry Murphy, another of last year's freshmen, began to take on much of the outside shooting. Shepard still is trying to find a fifth player for his starting quintet, however, and has worked through Jim Gabler, Dick Covey, and Cliff Crosby without too much success...
...with impressionism, as the schools that shaped his style. "The cubists used to picture a tabletop from above," he says, "and show the objects on the table as if they were at eye-level. I do the same-I paint a lot of pictures as though seen from a cliff and paint the people below as if you were down there looking at them. In a cubist picture you see the two perspectives, but in mine no one notices. I think it's old-fashioned to show how your socks are knitted...