Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, Germany, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Okinawa, Luzon, Burma, China, Iceland, India, Korea, Japan and other places, from 1941 to 1945 . . . swears in good style, likes pretty girls, milk, steak, beer, cheesecake and swing music, and is a sucker for a place called the U.S. . . . hates Japs, Germans, C rations and draft dodgers...
...flashy Eagles have eight games to go before the first postwar draft brings them new blessings. Until then, they must keep a double watch on at least two other clubs in their Eastern circuit...
Wangling some films of the Bears-Redskins game, Greasy studied them until he knew the basic T theme by heart. Finding the right players was the urgent next job. The best source was the annual college draft, and Greasy came to the December meeting loaded with facts & figures. From detailed reports supplied by four strategically located college coaches, plus voluminous newspaper clippings, Greasy had compiled-at a cost of $8,000-a set of 64 books of data. He wheeled them into the draft meeting and went to work...
Similar preparation for subsequent draft meetings has panned out as well or better. Now Greasy Neale has a talented team that can make his own highly refined T tick. Weak only at the ends, it boasts an undeniable line ribbed with two All Americas, 215-lb. Tackle Al Wistert (ex-Michigan) and 220-lb. Guard Bob Suffridge (Tennessee). Redheaded Steve Van Buren (Louisiana State), who breaks ten seconds for 100 yards, stops on a dime, runs either around or over a tackler with his 207 lbs., is perhaps the best halfback in the game. Quarterback Roy Zimmerman (San Jose State...
...tied together by the thoughts and struggles of a few major characters whose aim in life is to better the world. And in The Wind Is Rising, for the first time, the youthful idealism of Author Romains' men of good will is beginning to shiver in the cold draft of political affairs. As they enter middle age, they begin dimly to see bad omens. Chief among these omens is what Author Remains calls "the rise of gangs and the gang spirit...