Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orange Bowl at Miami, Maryland, the U.S.'s No. 1 team (minus its All-America Quarterback Bernie Faloney for most of the game), came a cropper at the hands of underdog Oklahoma, 7-0. The Sooners, the nation's top offensive rushing team, twice stopped Maryland inside their loyd. line and shut out the Terrapins for the first time in 51 games...
Sense of Security. Next day Foxhunter & Co. came a cropper. Approaching a tricky triple bar, the colonel placed Foxhunter too far away ("It was my fault"). Foxhunter balked and the colonel took most of the jump alone. "Part of the game, don't you know," said Llewellyn, ruefully rubbing his swollen face. (As part of the game, Llewellyn has taken seven spills in seven years that have been bad enough to cost him a whole upper front plate each time...
...could only be achieved through the party; whatever the party line said was so. Like others, Darke had casually checked his mind and doubts at the door. But since Marxist theology is both intricate and shifty, and the party demanding, many a well-meaning comrade came a cropper when faced with the gobbledygook that passes for dialectic...
...Syracuse, N.Y., Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan came a cropper in a nontitle bout against an in & outer named Danny ("Bang Bang") Womber. It was Gavilan's first defeat since...
...finish line without a single penalty, Fitch was one of the prime favorites for the million-franc prize money and the Prince Ranier III of Monaco Cup. But in the next test-a series of starts, stops and reverses over a 250-meter course-the Sunbeam-Talbot came a cropper. "There was a small knock in the motor," said Fitch ruefully. "We lost two seconds." By that slim margin, Fitch lost his chance to become the first U.S. winner of the race. The winner: Dutch Journalist and Veteran Competitor Maurice Gatsonides, 41, driving an English Ford Zephyr. Unfazed, Fitch grinned...