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...lineup. When Fullback Chick Jagade lowered his head and bucked upfield on the first play from scrimmage, Halas dug in and drove with him. Then Jagade fumbled. Halas stopped in horror. His foot came back and he kicked an imaginary ball right out of the field in disgust. Nervous substitutes kept a careful eye on their coach. They can still remember when Halas tried one of those phantom boots and place-kicked a 240-lb. guard right off the bench...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Papa Bear | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Your article should be required reading for every parent. As a graduate student, after completing a large part of the requirements for secondary-teaching credentials, I gave up in disgust at the conformity required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1955 | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Leaving two other stripped bodies on the pavement, the mob then surged through the gate, trampled two men to death and danced around their corpses. Another victim was doused with gasoline and set afire. Trembling with disgust and worry, Mohammed V emerged from the palace and pleaded: "Be calm, be calm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Return of the Distant Ones | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...with considerable disgust that I read of the Ford Motor Co. permitting its pressagents to promulgate the concept of limiting the sale of the new Continental car to humans with pedigrees [Oct. 10]. The whole thing is un-American-for shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...pains to suggest that such dark impulses sprouting from the confusions of youth are part of growing up. Like a nightmare, the whole perverted episode has not really damaged young Törless-or has it? The boy had briefly "lost his sense of direction [but] an indefinable hidden disgust never quite left him . . ." Readers of this odd but provocative book may wonder whether this sentence does not apply to Old Europe as much as to Young Törless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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