Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he is not playing soccer, is a 200-lb. six-footer with a tremendous kick in his massive legs. One of soccer's hardest shots, he can boot a ball fast enough to break a man's hand. From 20 yards he has often broken the goal's netting. Despite his Bronko Nagurski bulk, Gonsalves has the nimbleness of a Red Grange. At dribbling, volleying, jumping and tackling (snaring a ball from an opponent by clever footwork), he can match his stringier colleagues. At heading, too, Gonsalves has no peer. He butts with prodigious accuracy...
Died. Lawrence Waterbury, 65, onetime ten-goal poloist; after three months' illness; in Palm Beach. He was the last surviving star of the great American team of Monty and Larry Waterbury, Harry Payne Whitney and the incomparable Devereux Milburn, first to win the International Cup from the British, winners of every game in the 1909, '11 and '13 matches. He was also three times national amateur racquets champion...
...spite of the lounging we've seen them doing (and not much else that we've seen) they must have really scooted around this place night and day to make the grade (first third of it, anyway) and what we heard and saw on Tuesday is really a goal to set for this class... providing "a case is a case is a case" does not become a plague...
Chungking is 280 miles southwest of the Yangtze gorges. If the capital and its hinterland of Szechwan Province is the goal, strategy should call for complementary Jap drives from north and south...
...shown me a tradition of humane service, and that tradition is mine. You showed me the wisdom of the ages, and that wisdom is mine. You have shown me dignity in all peoples, and that dignity is mine. All this is part of me. You have given me a goal which will not be attained, but you have shown that only as I strive for this goal will my life be worth the living...