Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perkins felt that the answer to overcrowding would be better overcome if the College "cut back" so that "you can fit" students in the Houses. The University," he maintained, "should gear admissions to the equipment it's got to handle...
...bankers, oilmen, businessmen and their wives to a razzle-dazzle two-day blowout in celebration of the link-up of his Westcoast Transmission Co. Ltd. pipeline to the U.S. Northwest. Chartering five four-engine aircraft (at a cost of $13,000 each), McMahon got the wingding off in high gear by serving cocktails with breakfast on the flight to Fort St. John. There the guests were provided with more clothing-350 pairs of overshoes and 350 raincoats flown in from Vancouver. Eight chartered buses, which had churned through a blizzard from Edmonton to get there on time, took them...
...grimly real: a segregationist mob had ruled Little Rock for an ugly moment in U.S. history. Now the face of the law was that of a young U.S. Army paratrooper in battle gear outside Central High School. Little Rock was a name known wherever men could read newspapers and listen to radios, a symbol to be distorted in Moscow, misinterpreted in New Delhi, painfully explained in London. A great issue had been joined between law and anarchy-and as always, it was the innocents, the moderates, who suffered most...
...assume that Turkey had been invaded from the north, and in 40 days' fighting, the Turkish NATO forces had been theoretically forced back more than 60 miles to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Covered by planes and ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the Marines brought in by helicopter heavy gear that parachutists normally could not carry, and then set forth to smash enemy forward positions, wreck supply lines and create such havoc that the beleaguered Turkish defenders of Istanbul could start rolling again...
Hunch Player. Just as he hit his stride, Cox decided to quit. He got caught between the lines in a pitched battle between "downtown" alumni and Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg, and when his own eligibility proved to be at stake, he packed his gear and moved to Minnesota. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules kept Transfer Student Cox on the sidelines for a long, tough season. Then he busied himself by getting married once more. But his new wife has been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy...