Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does one of the season's most successful college football coaches refuse to give his team an oldfashioned, rip-roaring pep talk before the game? See SPORT, The Boys from Syracuse...
...Leap Forward" was and is a miscalculation by a regime that is still trying to pull the correct strings of economic and political statesmanship. China is potentially strong; it is a country which, whether we like it or not, will give us a great deal of trouble in its growing process. But this process cannot be halted any more, regardless of its errors and atrocities...
...Grinnell & McLean furniture store ballyhooed "Mother-in-Law Mattresses," sale-priced at $9.95, craftily explained to buyers: "After mother-in-law has gone home because of the mattresses' strange odor of miscured sisal, the handy homemaker can cover the otherwise-perfect 510-coil mattress so that it will give years of odor-free comfort and sound sleep...
...President of the U.S. personally untangled some of the reins of that prematurely grey mare, the U.S. space program, last week. In doing so, he created a wonder that the thing had ever moved at all. And he notably missed a chance to give it a sharp slap on the rump and get it headed somewhere...
...steps that an officer stood by to catch him. When an Air Force car drove Healy and Fitzpatrick to their billet at a motel 30 miles away, the two mayors, says Motel Owner Fred Faulkner, "had to be helped to their room." And when an officer arrived later to give them some information about Project William Tell, Healy made three requests: he did not want to be bothered with any of "this William Tell stuff," he wanted jet rides arranged, and he wanted transportation set up for their departure for Vermont...