Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screenplay leaves nothing behind in its tour through the junkyard of old sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into...
...when he leaves a room, puts out all the lights himself. In this way he saves money which would otherwise go abroad to pay for coal and oil. General Perón is also very careful about his clothes. You will never see a spot of dirt or cigarette ash on his suit, and that is not simply because his servants remove the stain. It is because he does not soil his clothes. When a suit gets dirty by accident, that is not so bad, but it is unpardonable to see the day's menu on the lapel...
...close to him in the race to ride the most winners of 1949.* Half an hour later, while Glisson was trying for No. 250, he got in a jam on the far turn and his mount stumbled. He was pitched out of the saddle and lay still in the dirt until the ambulance arrived...
...befriended has become a prostitute. Novelist Marshall never lets the abbe get too far away from a good-looker. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish refugee whom he tries to help is executed by the resistance. Many of his fellow priests are theological hypocrites who do him dirt at every turn, and when blindness threatens, his simple confidence in a miracle cure at Lourdes is disappointed...
...Plays to Pay Dirt. From its 11-yd. line a few minutes later, grim, white-jerseyed Army began to march. Quarterback Arnold ("The Pope") Galiffa took a knowing look at Michigan's four-man line and tried his pony backfield (Fischl, Cain and Kuckhahn) off the flanks. Michigan's defense, rated the most ingenious in collegiate football, spread out; Galiffa hit the center with a new play (called a "Galiffa keep") designed especially for Michigan. He deftly mixed in three completed passes. In ten plays, Army had a touchdown. At halftime the Cadets had a 14-0 lead...