Word: dipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City was mechanization. The Caterpillar powerplant with hydraulic ice cream dipper was part of the sidewalk force. Special emphasis was laid on clearing the sidewalks by Cambridge Mayor, Eddie J. Sullivan, so that local police could issue tickets for longstanding meter violations without getting their hip-boots wet. Asked if the Police would tag buried cars, the Mayor snapped, "If we can find them, we'll tag them. They parked the damned things, didn't they?" Mechanization met vain but fierce resistance on the Square, however, as enraged townsmen, swearing the machines were part of a University plot, barracaded themselves...
...Hill 317 become the ordeals war imposes on any army or all armies, on any man or all men. When food runs low, hunger destroys human feelings, levels rank, reduces commander and commanded to animals. By unspoken agreement, the commandant steps aside, and the mess sergeant ("The Dipper") takes over, inexorably dividing the remaining slices of bread. Each day the survivors eagerly await Adam Ember's count of the newly fallen, for each death of a buddy means more bread for the living. When the men plead for provisions, the squawking field telephone informs them that "there...
...twelfth man is a fifth wheel in the backfield, and all five can be in motion before the ball is snapped. There is ample opportunity for the organized confusion of trick plays and hipper-dipper, crowdpleasing football. There are no time outs except for injury, and Canadian football takes on an even more frantic pace because a team is allowed only three downs to gain ten yards. Passes come fast and frequently as quarterbacks shoot for the distance. The ball changes hands so often that kicking takes on an exaggerated importance. Downfield, a punt receiver is allowed no fair catches...
...football season already tainted by the West Point cribbing affair and threatened by investigations from all sides (see above), there were still a couple of pleasant surprises. With emphasis on the single-wing attack, and less of the hipper-dipper intricacies of the T formation, football was a lot easier to watch. The best teams were also easier to see. With the decline of Army and Notre Dame, football's center of gravity had shifted and spread; the nation's top teams are now scattered from Tennessee to California, with regional powerhouses in the Midwest (Michigan State...
...weather (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) made footballs take some strange bounces. Gales, snow, sleet, rain and mud-the great levelers-made fumbling bumblers out of All-America candidates, made even the lowliest underdog look good, raised line-smashing fullbacks to an importance never intended for them in the hipper-dipper T-formation system...