Word: gib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although its varsity runs from the T formation, the Blue jayvees employ the single-wing for a couple of reasons. In the first place, junior varsity coach Gib Holgate, being an old Michigan man, is duly fond of the Wolverine-type offense. In the second place, the jayvees polish a single-wing attack all season so they can show the varsity a complete Harvard repertoire during the last week of the season...
...Britain's Crown colonies, Gibraltar (area, 2 sq. mi.; pop. 19,278) took a firm stand against the liquidation of the British Empire. At the foot of the Rock, a mass meeting voted last week to send three delegates on a mission to London. Their mandate: to have "Gib" incorporated in metropolitan Britain, 1,200 miles away...
Before the war, Texas Rancher Gilbert ("Gib") Bryan Sandefer was assistant to the president of Hardin-Simmons University at Abilene, Tex. (His teetotaling father, Jefferson Davis Sandefer, was its late president. His brother is its board chairman.) Then Gib became an American Red Cross field representative, and went to India...
British officials, unaware that Sandefer once taught the subtleties of the lariat to the Kaiser, wondered what kind of Western rope trick this was. Just what was he cooking up with Gandhi, and did he have any "political aspirations?" To the first question, Gib Sandefer drawled that he was just a "monkey-tailed Baptist that had gone down for a little fellowship" with India's wily saint. To the political question, he answered Yes-he wanted some day to be chief of the Maryneal, Tex., fire department. British officialdom decided that he was loco but harmless...
Submarines were chosen to act as beacons in the North African landing. We took position about ten miles from Oran to shine lights and guide the invasion fleet. It was a very easy job. Then we pushed north, off the Balearic Islands. One afternoon, creeping toward "Gib," my officer of the watch sighted what he thought was a distant aircraft carrier. On a closer look it turned out to be a submarine. My orders were like everyone else's: if you see a German U-boat, fire everything you have got. We had six torpedoes; we fired...