Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very often it has been charged that we run interference for the United States and hardly ever carry the ball ourselves. As any football player knows, to win a game you have to have good interference, so that role, if we do play it, is an important enough...
...Londos, 49, who first claimed the world's heavyweight wrestling title back in 1930, figured the phony old game was really going to the dogs: "There are too many freaks . . . too many men who rely on hairdos and perfume." Said he: "I am still champion ... I have decided to wrestle again because I want to help clean out the sport...
...Bing got a raise to $4 and a reporter's job. At 21, he was sports editor though he didn't know how to score a baseball game. Soon he was pouring out four columns a day as an expert...
With seven minutes to play and an 11-point lead, the tantalizing Aggies went into their "freeze." When the game ended, St. Louis had lost its fourth straight game to Oklahoma A. & M. in two years (while losing only two other games all told), 40-37. The subdued crowd of 11,624 moved for the exits, dragging their bells behind them...
Died. P. (for Philip) Hal Sims, 62, hulking (6 ft. 4 in., 300 Ibs.) contract bridge expert; after a heart attack; in Havana. Sims took up the game in the '20s, after thrice winning the National Amateur three-cushion billiards championship, matched an uncanny card sense with a ruthless application of psychology and technical skill to become one of the world's outstanding players. A longtime rival of Culbertson, Sims was a born sportsman and amateur gambler (whist, golf, poker, tennis, horses), once played 59 straight hours of bridge...