Word: droves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice more in the closing moments the varsity drove deep into opposition territory, only to be thwarted by the determined Big Red line.Crimson halfback LARRY REPSHER is stopped by Cornell's JOHN SANDUSKY (86) after a short gain over left tackle. LYMAN BEGGS (41) charges up for the coup de grace as JON CHRISTIANSON (53) and DAVE CAPPIELLO (80) look...
...leads are not always so fruitful. Following one tip, Oster drove to St. Martinsville, where a fabulously gifted and ancient crone was supposed to live. Oster found not one, but two old women waiting for him on the front porch of a house that had a statue of the Virgin in the front yard and an oil well in the back. Neither of the old girls could sing a note. On the other hand, Oster has found that many a performer can be coaxed to song with a little priming. In French and Cajun settlements, he tries to build...
...infield grass, while Sox runners scampered around the bases. Scouting reports had assured Dodger pitchers that Chicago's muscleman First Baseman Ted Kluszewski (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), 35, could no longer pull the home-run ball to right. Big Klu promptly pulled two homers to right, drove in five runs. Final score...
...Athens bank. After another hitch in the oilfields, Richardson returned to Athens a year later in a brand new Cadillac, "swung around the square so's all the bench warmers would see me good," and then went to the bank and paid back the cash. Then he drove out of town again...
...drove right into a million dollars when he began trading in oil leases, was wiped out in 1921, when oil prices tumbled, made another fortune and went broke again early in the Depression, when overproduction in the East Texas fields brought posted prices down to 10? a barrel. He lived on credit, unable to pay either his office rent or his $8 monthly dues at the Fort Worth Club. In 1932, as oil prices began to rise, Sid came out of hibernation...