Word: derringers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are the dashing, derring-do boys of the National Football League, a tight little elite of halfbacks who survive by speed of foot and wit in a jungle of brute force. Although they may weigh 190 Ibs. or more, they are seldom risked in the crunch of line bucks...
of derring-do, the big men of both the
His prose is Welsh; he can be language-drunk or sly with bawdry, as Dylan Thomas was when he named the village in Under Milk Wood "Llareggub." As for the roarious Jethro, he is engaging as a boy, but loses credibility as he grows older; he is forever lapsing into...
Bombs at Home. In Havana, Castro went straight to the Presidential Palace for a 2½-hour speech. An hour after he started, an oppositionist showing unprecedented derring-do set off a noisy bomb amidst the meeting. Castro laughed it off: "The moment I started talking of imperialism, the bomb...