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Word: directs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final two games of the season, Dunster, led by quarterback Gordy Wade, managed to pull the title out with a 6 to 0 victory. Rumors that the Puritans were going to kidnap Wade had been circulating for several days before the game, but he was on the field to direct the team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses to Play Yale Colleges in Football, Soccer Games Here | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

According to James E. Stinson, Jr. '59, president of the HDC, the five left "because they were not content to act; they wanted to direct, too." He added that, with the replacements, "the production is probably in better shape than before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Quit Cast of HDC Show | 11/20/1958 | See Source »

Nowhere in Mao's reflections was there any direct reference to Quemoy, but the thousands of "study groups" convened to discuss the new publication were quick to get the point. "Under the brilliant leadership of Chairman Mao," proclaimed a military school teacher, "we have gone from victory to victory. So long as we hold aloft the Red banner of Chairman Mao in ideology, we shall always triumph." In other words: don't ask questions; Mao has always been right before, and he must have something up his sleeve this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: No Questions, Please | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...movie trade papers, dressed in nothing but a wet white silk shirt, Hollywood will get the word. "R.B."-the modest monogram on the shirt's breast pocket-tells it all. Russell Birdwell, Hollywood's busiest huckster, is on the job. After a brief dry spell trying to direct pictures (The Girl in the Kremlin, Flying Devils), and a few months of promoting such inanimate products as automatic laundries, "the Bird" is back at his appointed task: fabricating movie myths and getting their names into print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Rally Round the Flack, Boys | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...have a new course this year," Adolph Samborski told the assembly. "You follow the fence until you reach Gate 12, then run along the outside until you reach Gate 18. There'll be someone there to direct you. Then you run across to the track and finish up there." Then Mr. Samborski good-naturedly got out of the way, and the race commenced...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/12/1958 | See Source »

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