Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crisler offensive. He is not the pile-driving, hippe type. He spins and he starts most of the plays. The quarterback is the blocking back. Jack Weisenberger played fullback for the Wolverines last fall. He weighs about 175. He generally got the ball on a direct pass from center, after the switch from T to single-wing, and then the fun began, with as many as five men eventually handling the ball as in the now-famous Rose Bowl end-around...
...most interesting, and perhaps the most newsworthy part of his speech was the mention of a forth-coming official paper that will show how the countries of Eastern Europe are being squeezed dry by the Soviet Union, and that they face a possible deterioration--and soon--as the direct result of being yanked out of their normal and necessary trade relations with the West. And Professor Elliott said he was happy that the Communists were running things in Bulgaria, Romania, etc.... because they'd be blamed for it, and rightly...
Watching a play without any understanding of the language makes the performance a unique problem in appreciation. At last night's opening, however, enough of the work came through to make it definitely thought-provoking. The achievement of this interest without the direct language contact ordinarily considered essential was a tribute to the problems discussed in the play and, more than anything else, to the quality of the acting...
...product of his own. He found it in the old Hammond typewriter. Through deaths and bankruptcies, it had become the VariTyper and was up for sale for $300,000. Coxhead bought it. He made some 1,400 changes and developed it into an efficient printing machine* for house organs, direct-mail campaigns...
...strategic godsend to the men intent on discrediting Plan E and proportional representation in the eyes of the electorate. PR forces a candidate before the entire city for re-election instead of allowing him the relative security of a small well-organized Ward. Such a plan constitutes a direct menace to professional politicos like Sullivan, Foley, Sennott, and Neville. Their political futures demand an inoperative government and a continuing stalemate. Although these men have had it within their power to elect one of themselves Mayor several times they have always split their vote. At one point Neville, having three anti...