Word: ems
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week, Carlisle came into his own-and it was Navy Coach Wayne Hardin who unwittingly gave him the chance. To stop Texas's chew-'em-up ground attack, Hardin ordered the Middies into a 5-3-3 defense, with the linebackers and corner backs stacked up so tightly that the deep secondary was left practically unguarded. Navy creamed three out of Texas's first four running plays. But then, on third down, with the ball on his own 42, Carlisle dropped back and did the one thing the Middies never expected: he threw the bomb...
Affair begins, for instance, with a New York drama critic on a summer jaunt to Europe. As if by magic, Paris customs men switch his raincoat for one belonging to another tourist. The critic finds its lining contains ten-count 'em-ten $10,000 bills. To no one's surprise, the critic turns out to be a former foreign correspondent who can order breakfast in at least six foreign languages and-what else?-a onetime OSS man in World War II. In no time at all he is up to his tweed lapels in a fell and fancy...
...just a heartfelt desire to shock. A twelve-year-old homosexual leaves the Germans and offers himself as a G.I. camp follower. A French lieutenant coolly obliterates every sign of life in an enemy pillbox that has already surrendered. Soldiers in transit sing out that old favorite Bless 'Em All, blurrily substituting that four-letter verb common to army camps but not to Hollywood movies...
...hold back on this thing now when we know we're going to have to go along with whatever it takes to get it out in the end. That's the bill that will tear the Democratic Party apart. I say bring it out and let 'em start fighting over it." In any event, with his sometime Republican allies now pressuring him, Smith finally agreed to start hearings on the civil rights bill "reasonably soon in January...
...chief executive of a big Northeastern industrial state-a state of the sort that Republicans presumably would have a much better chance of carrying against Johnson than against Kennedy. Scranton has had Washington experience (Congress and the State Department), and he won his present job in a rock-'em-sock-'em campaign...