Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wallace (6-ft.-4-in.) is a modest graduate of the Kentucky coal-mining country. All season long he has been scrapping with Wilt Chamberlain and Chet Forte for big-college scoring honors, while his exasperated coach keeps urging him to shoot more often. But Grady prefers to feed the ball to his teammates. When he does decide to cut loose, he can connect from outside as well as from under-the-basket melees...
Such a force-in-being-or force-soon-to-be-demands the services of a phenomenal one-tenth of the U.S. labor force to man, equip, maintain and feed it. It also demands the unflagging efficiency, enthusiasm and watchfulness of the front-line crews and the steady support of the public during years of strain that know no letup. Whenever Admiral Radford gets away from his three briefcases of Sunday homework to take a drive with his wife Marianna (which is rarely), he must first outline his exact route to a duty officer, so that troopers can be deployed...
...millions of remaining acres of Great Plains grazing land that are ready to blow. At trip's end, addressing a special drought conference at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Ike promised to ask Congress for $76 million for emergency drought relief (credit for farmers and ranchers, feed for cattle, funds to slow erosion), promised that the Federal Government would be a "willing partner" with local and state authorities "in solving this problem, which I assure you we will solve...
...like a pack of frantic terriers to seal him off from teammates' passes. But at half time. S.M.U. Coach E. O. ("Doc") Hayes deftly changed offense, told his players to shoot from the outside to force the Aggie defense away from Krebs and then, "when Jim is free, feed...
This year, with Krebs improving in every game, S.M.U. looks better than ever using an attack that is deceptively simple: break fast and feed the ball to Krebs. "A lot of clubs run plays off the pivot man," explains Hayes frankly. "We don't. If we can get the ball to him and he can score, the green light...