Word: east
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raining when the opening whistle blew. It began to sleet in the second quarter, when Foley threw a 25-yard pass to end Don Daughters for six points. Yale reared back to score, and seemed sure to kick the extra point, but All-East guard Al Kevorkian crashed through to save the half-time...
...dying a natural death, a death hastened by the force of Jewish arms. David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, announced peace overtures from two of the principal Arab states, Egypt and Trans-Jordan. The question is whether the big powers with strategic and economic stakes in the Middle East will allow these peace talks to reach a final and successful conclusion...
Traditionally suspicious of any strong nation lying across the colonial lifelines, Great Britain is the one nation violently opposed to negotiations which would leave Israel dominant in the Middle East. British strategists view the emergence of a powerful state in Palestine as a direct threat to the Suez Canal, to the vital oil deposits in Iraq, and to the proposed airbases in the Negeb. For these purely military reasons, plus the fact that the Middle East is the one remaining area where Great Britain can exert Imperial power, the British have consistently supported the Arab cause and have pressed...
...Valpey through his father-in-law, Ozzie Cowles, who was basketball coach in 1947 at Michigan, and is now mentor at Minnesota. After graduating from Iowa Teachers, Ben discovered there was a dearth of high school coaching jobs in Iowa. He went east to Michigan both to visit his wife's family, and to locate a coaching...
...Yonkel the Jink ("A jink is a fellow who used to be a jinx and graduated"), the "hardest luck guy on the East Side." Dozens of people, reports Billy, "make a living by checking his selections and betting the opposite . . . When he discusses past achievements it's always 'The day I beat Army' or 'The night I knock out Graziano.' " Billy tells how Yonkel was once outjinxed by one Timothy Whitehead, who had lost $5,000,000 in the '29 crash. "That's diffrunt," said Yonkel, "winnin' from dat kinda fella...