Word: guard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backboard work by Ed Smith and John Rockwell was the strong point of the Tufts game, but the varsity often lacked the speed necessary to play Shepard-brand fast-break ball. Its shooting from the outside was also weak. Shepard has accordingly pushed fast Jim Gabler up to the guard spot in the starting lineup. Under Shepard's system there will be three guards and two centers...
Soon Joe Foss, who had left the Marines to become a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, was flying all over the state acting as master of ceremonies for South Dakota's Miss America contest, dedicating baseball fields and leading airmen in a fancy repertoire of acrobatics. To questions about the future he bluntly replied: "I don't know myself what I'm going to do in 1950, but take a look at those in office...
Rifle-toting, steel-helmeted police stood guard this week while Conservative voters dutifully queued up to mark their ballots at the polls. In an uncontested election, the Conservative government was applying the final constitutional touch to its relentless drive to elevate its arch-conservative leader, Laureano Gómez, into Colombia's presidency...
...government indifference to violence (TIME, Nov. 14), called for a three-day general strike. Though some railroads were affected in the provinces, the main results of the strike in Bogota were a shortage of taxicabs and the nonappearance of the Liberal newspapers. Electricity, telephone and water service continued under guard...
...late change may send Jim Gabler to guard in the place of Crosby. Shepard plans to dress 15 men for the games, and, in addition to the starting five, at least three of them--Gabler, Aaron Cohodes, and Gerry Murphy--are likely to see considerable service...