Word: gears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much so that when I walked down Fifth [Avenue] with him he had to beg me to get him into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
...column called Words to Live By appears each week in This Week. Authors, philosophers, statesmen, educators and plain citizens choose and comment on quotations, famous or obscure, as a steering gear for readers in "these rudderless days." For No. 22 in the series, Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, president of St. John's College, last week plucked a 2,000-year-old thought from Aristotle: "All men desire by nature to know." Wrote Barr...
...loss of big Chester Pierce that threw the tackle situation into high gear at the start of practice. Chester ran into a recurrence of his 1945 leg injury that will keep him on the bench for at least half the season; Harlow lost his other would-be starter, Howie Houston, for least two weeks with another leg injury. In an effort to boister the tackle positions, Harlow has moved in a variety of other linemen to fill the gap, with former guards Eddle Davis and Ned Dewey looming as starters. Both Davis and Dewey are experienced linemen, with the former...
...TIME believes, no, knows it's always right. If you disagree with anything in it, they will throw their mighty machine of newsgatherers into third gear and somehow prove you wrong, even if it's terribly costly...
...make her fast and pack your gear...