Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conversation, covering half a dozen such questions as why he dragged his feet behind Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 campaign. From the rest, except for some locutions too salty for U.S. living rooms, Murrow and Co-Producer Fred W. Friendly had a chance to cull "a first draft of history." Says Friendly: "The material is so rich we could have done another hour-long show just as good as this one-and we'll probably...
...senior year was 6 ft. 7 in., and, although he moved like an unhinged giraffe, scored enough to get scholarship bids from some two dozen colleges. Pettit chose Louisiana State University, was an All-American for two years in a row, and in 1954 was the first-draft choice of the St. Louis Hawks. A handsome, lithe giant, Bob Pettit soon found that the pros play their own rugged brand of ball, but he survived the rattling rites of passage. On offense, his soft, floating jump shot is a model for the league. On defense, he has tactics for every...
...came in person to bargain with her. He promised to repay all the money and drew up the draft of a document creating her Comtesse de Beauregard-she had bought the huge chateau and park near Paris bearing that name. "The duel over," says Author Maurois, "there was a reconciliation upon the field...
...Premier in 1954, chubby, talkative O.K. Yui has built a reputation for personal honesty and integrity. The vote did appear to have been aimed less at Yui personally than at the Kuomintang Party's tight control of government affairs. Last week, as Yui's Cabinet approved the draft of the defense that he must submit to the Judicial Yuan for a ruling in the case, the Kuomintang's Central Daily News loftily pronounced the impeachment "meaningless and without value...
...Rice line shifted defensively, Forrestal changed many of his plays as he crouched over his center, completed 13 out of 24 passes for 153 yards. Against such opposition. Rice's big (6 ft. 3 in., 205 Ibs.) Quarterback King Hill, also an All-American and the bonus draft choice of the Chicago Cardinals, got nowhere, sat out most of the second half. Final score...