Word: gil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through all these stages admirers have been waiting for Gil Winant to live up to the promise they found in him. Through all of them he has remained the same: a man of slow gestures, always digging his hands in his pockets or twisting and turning awkwardly, as if he had caught his arms in the lining of his coat sleeves, while he expresses flawless liberal sentiments in a slow, pained voice. His friends marvel at Ambassador Winant's dress, wonder how he manages to keep his trousers so impressed, where he finds so many pale blue shirts with...
...field prospects are excellent with the return of three veterans Gil Whitemore, Red Tully and Captain Freddy Keyes to third base, first base and short stop respectively. Second base is as yet a wide open fight with Jimmy Lynch having the inside track over Bart Harvey and Oscar Hausserman. Last year's Yardling star, Art Scully, playing basketball at present, may break into the lineup in this position...
...Suave, powerful Emilio Fortes Gil, Provisional President of Mexico after the assassination of Obregon. As No. 1 brawn-truster to Avila Camacho, Gil probably knows as much about Mexican politics as any other living man, will thus be indispensable to the syndicate...
Suave, thick-set Emilio Fortes Gil (pronounced heel), who was Provisional President after the assassination of Alvaro Obregon in 1928 and who helped Cárdenas into power only to be squeezed out by machinations of Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano and the Government's extreme left wing...
...that the Crimson's 1941 season will open with Penn and Cornell, two teams which have been more or less openly recruited for the purpose of winning games. Way back in 1937 when the schedules for next fall and even for the fall of 1942 were made out, Gloomy Gil Dobie's policy was still in effect in Ithaca, and the Pennsylvanians had not yet been attracted by the lure of a winning team for their Bi-Centennial. Both schools ranked in the pure amateur class. However, it was a risky venture even then to map out a program...