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...know the reason I'm a fighter? . . . For money. For this car and these clothes. That's all I'm in it for." But before this cold logic douses their brief affair, Laine does a portrait of Baby. She paints him bloody-faced amid a crisscross of ring ropes. "You scare me out of ten years' growth," Baby says when he sees it. "You want to get me killed." But it is Baby who does the killing, without intending it, in his next fight; and the splatter of headlines in the midnight papers about...
...talking was not enough. Navy's deft team play, with crisscross aerial passes, won two quick goals early in the second half before Army could get moving. Final score: 10-7. Navy's jubilant players, rushing to the Severn River seawall, gave happy Coach William H. ("Dinty") Moore a hearty heave ho into the river-then exuberantly jumped in after him. Princeton's Coach Thomsen hurried to a telephone to tell his men that they were the national champions...
...first minute or so of play, Chicago fans thought they had something to shout about: Chicago's Goalie Al Rollins twice stopped Howe cold. Moments later, Howe and Detroit Captain Ted Lindsay broke out of a melee and headed up the ice with the puck in their famed "crisscross" play...
Full-fledged towns such as Redwater (pop. 3,600), Leduc (pop. 1,500) and Devon (pop. 2,400) have mushroomed in the countryside. Pipelines crisscross the grainfields; grazing cattle placidly drink out of the safety pools around burning-off oil wells. Oil exploration teams roam tirelessly on the rolling, almost treeless prairie of the south, among the mixed farms and forests of mid-province and through the wilderness of northern woods and lakes. The brisk, winy aroma of prosperity...
...people, have bought their music on the painless, pay-as-you-go packaging basis known as the "organized-audience plan." Two giant A & Ps of music, Community Concert Service and Civic Concert Service, handle 90% of the bookings; some 2,500 artists, separately, in ensembles and in orchestras, crisscross the nation to serve up the music...