Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach John Yovicsin will probably use a new backfield alignment, with Dick McLaughlin at quarterback and Walt Stahura at right halfback. Stahura injured the ring finger of his right hand and is still unable to handle the ball under center, after sitting out the last half of the Cornell game...
...badly bruised finger suffered in the third quarter of the Cornell game will keep Walt Stahura from playing quarterback against Ohio University Saturday afternoon. He will play in the right halfback position, with Dick McLaughlin starting as quarterback...
...nearly 3 p.m. when the hollow-eyed, unshaven missilemen finally had the Atlas, biggest bird in the U.S.'s missile aviary, ready for launching. Men inside the blockhouse listened in tight-lipped silence to the final countdown. At zero, a finger pressed a red button in a control panel, and the missile, rising slowly and majestically, started on history's second Atlas flight (see color pages opposite...
...Even with its heart cut out, the French right-wingers still did not like the loi-cadre and, when the final debate began, reneged on their promised support. For one thing, they clearly sensed that they no longer had to worry so much about the U.S. wagging its moral finger at them. "Why should the French have a bad conscience?" demanded Soustelle. "It's not France that must use armed troops to put children into school." Fiery right-wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who was once barred from office for collaborating with Pétain, went even further...
...fiery revolutionary, 1917 model, waving a Red flag on the barricades. Stalin, fighting for his own life and that of his grey, monolithic regime, wanted no Balkan hothead making the Allies suspicious of Communism's ultimate intentions. He was to declare airily: "I will shake my little finger, and there will be no more Tito." This exciting, carefully documented book helps explain why, although there is no more Stalin, there is still a Tito...