Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidently the Crimson squad figured the game was in the bag after that early scoring spree, but the Purple and Gold came storming back and won the contest largely on the strength of their superb condition. While the Crimson just managed to drag through the last quarter, the Jeffmen finished the game still charging hard...
Such was the bill of fare at the Yale Bowl Saturday. This happened once. At other times, Levi made impressive yardage through the line with no holes opened and no blocks thrown, but he found it difficult to drag the Colgate line more than five yards at a time. It wasn't until late in the game, when the Red Raiders found their ranks badly battered by a paucity of substitutes and a host of injuries who kept leaving the field in endless procession that the big breakaway came...
...Oblivion. "There must be what Mr. Gladstone called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past...
...Grieffs Restaurant on the main drag a mouselike little man turned his palms upward, pointed to the blisters and said: "That's what I get for having to bury my garbage in the backyard." A well-dressed young office worker tried to rub the dirt from her nylons with a paper napkin and snapped: "I wish they'd clean the streets...
...Biggest drag was continuing supplier strikes; General Motors alone was burdened with 63, down from 143 at the end of May. Chrysler had to shut down this week to let parts supplies and materials catch up, a move that will cut the week's total production by at least 20,000 units. And somewhere in the murky water was the added threat, first visible last fortnight, of new wage demands by the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. First on U.A.W's list: Chrysler...