Word: cut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right halfback, Charlie Steele played a fine game on two heavily bandaged legs. With his speed cut in half, Steele still was magnificent on defense, and his passes set up one goal and nearly led to another. Munro had expected to start Bill Driver in Steele's spot, but the tough halfback refused to be benched. Many, including Munro, have said that Steele is the most improved player on the squad; his effort Saturday was a sterling display of talent and know...
...Formerly Stanford University Hospital, but cut adrift when the university moved its medical school to the Palo Alto campus (TIME, Sept...
...revolution in architecture, because it puts the horizontal steel-in tension principles that apply to suspension bridges into a vertical context. The wires, in a state of tension, keep the mast unbending and rigid. The aluminum tubes, arranged like pairs of end-to-end coat hangers (see cut), push the wires apart to keep them taut. An exact balance of push-and-pull makes the tower stand...
...LAWRENCE SEAWAY traffic for year will total an estimated 6,600 ships carrying 20 million tons of cargo when it closes for the winter at end of November. This is 20% less than expected, because late spring thaw and steel strike cut shipments...
...might find it easier to believe in angels than in Eloise, the wildly implausible moppet who usually lives at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel with her nanny, dog Weenie and turtle Skipperdee. Two years ago her devoted biographers, Nightclub Comic Kay Thompson and Illustrator Hilary Knight, described how she cut a rug at Maxim's in Paris. In this, her fourth appearance, Eloise dons raccoon coat and diplomatic pout to travel to Moscow, where Mommy has some vague connections with Americanski Embassyski. And here is the thing of it, as she would say: never before have those Red squares...