Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory kept the Lions running well toward the front in the race for professional football's Western Conference championship. And even the Lions' veteran (30) Quarterback Bobby Layne. the man with the golden arm. admits that it is such defensive experts as Schmidt that keep the competition close. "Everyone is using a four-three defense* now," explains Layne. "And from the four-three they can do anything. Say the four linemen rush you -then you've got seven men in the secondary, and you've really got to pinpoint your passes. Or they...
...ends and two tackles on the defensive line with three linebackers close behind them...
...Gene Gant, Tony seems almost to be playing himself. Like Gene, he is introspective and quietly intense. His long (6 ft. 2 in.), lean frame is close enough to the gangling scarecrow that was the young Thomas Wolfe, and he still looks like a teenager. Remembers Tony: "I was a kid in high school when I first started to read Wolfe, and right away I identified myself with Gene...
...whole faithless, pleasure-loving Restoration society-a society he exposed by unlocking one bedroom door after another, by unloosing a succession of farcically indecent pranks. The result is about equally crude and complicated in its bawdiness, is both wildly improbable and somehow too close for comfort, is now dated in its assumption, now faded in its effects. But what Critic William Archer once called "the most bestial play in all literature" is still, of its own kind, one of the best. To its exhaustive display of lust it brings an often matching demonstration of lustiness. Nor did Wycherley write...
...Babists broke with the Shiites over the successor to the successor; and, in more recent times (1863), the Bahais splintered from the Babists when Baha'u'llah proclaimed himself the true successor or Bab (literally, "gate" to Paradise). Last week the Bahais, who claim a membership of close to 10,000 in the U.S. (1,500,000 in the world), wrestled with a succession problem of their...