Word: emmet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson racquetmen shut out their opponents 3 to 0, and only one match was carried to five games. But in that contest, captain Gerry Emmet first won two games and then led the Army top man 14 to 9 in the third, when suddenly the ball broke...
During the wait for a new one, Emmet apparently cooled off somewhat, although at times in the rest of that game and the next he needed only one more point to Cadet opposition...
AMERICA THE VINCIBLE (306 pp.)-Emmet John Hughes-Doubleday...
Poised between exhortation and rebuke, America the Vincible offers unflattering answers to these and other significant questions. Author Emmet John Hughes, chief of correspondents in Time Inc.'s Foreign News Service, and sometime (1952 campaign, 1953, and 1956 campaign) speechwriter for Dwight Eisenhower, clearly hopes to get his fellow citizens to face the errors of the past so that they may grapple more knowingly with the realities of the future. Paradoxically, the book's existence seems to refute some of its charges. If the great debate on America's international aims had sunk to "a stammering...
...lifted as the President received a brass putter, welcoming gift from the city fathers of the "Winter Golf Capital of the World" (pop. 15,000). Grinning, Ike brandished the putter, climbed aboard a helicopter to fly 14 air miles to the hastily spruced-up Allen home. The housekeeper, Mrs. Emmet Reed, had opened the three-bedroom stucco bungalow in jig time, adding womanly bowls of flowers. But Ike's party was strictly a stag affair. With him, besides Host Allen and Press Secretary Jim Hagerty, were Coca-Cola's Chairman Bill Robinson and Freeman Gosden, original Amos...