Word: cues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Defending his world's three-cushion championship in New York last week, Hoppe was jerking rather than punching through with his deft cue-and that was all but fatal in this most precise of billiard games. Once before he had battled a similar bugaboo that made him fidget around too long, taking aim. He conquered that by counting softly, "One, two, three," shooting on three. This time, he relied on silent concentration...
After three wobbly games, Hoppe's cue began to find its proper voice. The fourth time up, he clicked off two runs of eight, set a tourney mark by bagging the required 50 points in only 20 innings. Once he had found himself, even the lingering aftereffects of amoebic dysentery, picked up on a Central American tour, could not keep him from making the most difficult of shots-such as a six-cushion carom with the object balls frozen on the rail...
This week the Italian Government tried to make something happen. If reports were true, they had taken the Churchill-Roosevelt declaration as a cue to ask officially for participation in the European peace conference as a full-fledged United Nation...
...Harry von Zell had Adolphe Menjou at the mike. Von Zell: "Tell them about this great sight here tonight." Menjou: "Tell them? How on earth can I?" But the De Mille cue had been given and, suddenly, the wandering blue kleig lights turned from the flag-draped platform to focus on the concrete opening whence football teams usually come rushing out in triumph...
...destroyed or even driven back beyond the Seine, Paris would fall in General Ike Eisenhower's own good time. Perhaps the hour was already set. The actors in the drama of triumph were in the wings with him. Already in France General Charles de Gaulle awaited his entrance cue. The chariots were assembled-the tanks and trucks of General Jacques Leclerc's armored division which had rolled up to the rim of the city with the Americans. Other victory parade leaders were ready - among them General Joseph Pierre Koenig, the commander of France's underground army, which...