Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fullback for an oft-beaten Naval Academy team. But one day, when Navy was being flattened by a beefy, bulldozing squad from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the little fullback came roaring out of nowhere, slammed the V.P.I. ball carrier so hard that he rocked him over the sideline, off the field, under the bleachers. His name was William Halsey, and they called him "Bull." That was the way he went through life...
Tepee has nothing to do with Indians, merely stands for the initials of "Thaler's Project." The physicist more or less backed into long-range detection through his involvement in nuclear testing: now director of the field projects branch of the Office of Naval Research and chairman of the Navy's special weapons effects planning group, he has watched almost every U.S. nuclear test explosion in the past ten years...
...horse away fast at the start. By 16 he was ready for the thoroughbreds,, drove his first mount to victory in the 1951 Thanksgiving Handicap in New Orleans. Within months Ussery was a big-time jockey, with a reputation as a slasher who bulled his way through the field like a fullback. Ussery used the whip so much that some jockeys hated to mount the horse he had ridden because the animal tended to sulk. Not until last year, when he was set down for 30 days for whacking Eddie Arcaro's horse across the nose at Jamaica...
Which are the most memorable and effective ads of recent times? Last week Fairfax Mastick Cone, 56, executive committee chairman of Foote, Cone & Belding (annual billings: more than $100 million), listed his favorites of the past decade, limiting the field to magazine ads (he considers them the most demanding) and excluding his agency's campaigns.*"Fax" Cone...
...Fair Lady holds the musical field, with The Music Man a close second, and Redhead (Gwen Verdon up) followed by Flower Drum Song just about rounding the box-office turn...