Word: doggedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, trouble dogged the U.S. team. Coach Jack Riley upset morale by tossing three members off his squad, adding three others who had not even shown up for the Boston tryouts: Defenseman John Mayasich, 26, a television-time salesman who once played for the University of Minnesota, and Boston...
At a Little Theater tryout she met a young lawyer, Dick Nixon. They were cast in the leading roles of The Dark Tower, and Lawyer Nixon immediately began a dogged, offstage courtship. He learned to dance, nearly fractured his skull trying to ice skate-and according to an oft-told...
As the hero forges onward and downward, square-jawed and indomitably prissy, his footsteps are dogged by the usual unmitigated cur (Thayer David), and loyally followed by four trite and true companions: a plucky youth (Pat Boone), a good-natured giant (Peter Ronson), a beautiful widow (Arlene Dahl) and a...
"It's like tossing an egg up there," says Twyman. "I toss it easy so the egg won't break." Twyman gets away his one-hand jump and two-hand set with deceptive speed, arches his shots so high they can even clear the soaring blocks of Philadelphia...