Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield, Little has the famous "Goal Dust" twins, fullback Lou Kusserow and quarterback Gene Rossides, along with wingback Johnny Nork and tailback Bill Olson. Between them, Rossides and Kusserow scored four touchdowns against Rutgers last Saturday to lead Columbia...
...DiBlasio have been doing most of the punting for the Crimson in pre-season drills and may drop back out of the line to perform that duty this fall. Both are carrying on the tradition of Harvard's famous punting end, Loren McKinney...
...found General Patton enthroned in a palace once occupied by the King of Sicily. Ruth and I turned down the famous Patton 75, a suicidal highball of champagne, brandy and possibly other disastrous mixtures. Lunch consisted of G.I. food and shop talk ... I simply had to ask him about the slapping incident., General Patton sadly remarked, 'I always get in trouble with my gawddamned mouth.' At the same time, he shouted at the top of his squeaky voice, 'But if this sort of thing ever comes up, I'll do it again...
...Minor! C Minor!" When he got home again, in 1930, he found himself famous. As time went by he took to stuffing his pockets with costly cigars, developed a taste for conservative grey suits, manicures and perfume. In 1932 he was made director of musical education for Rio's schools...
...famous Father Orr of Cambridge, Mass. . . . who was always called 'Billy,' [was once] asked, 'What is your specialty?' Billy hesitated an instant and then, in the rich brogue which made him famous, replied: 'My specialty is raising money for church purposes without giving scandal...