Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After guard Tim Burke partially blocked a Yale punt at midfield, Harvard was once again on the move. Marshall and Strandemo moved the ball to the Eli 38-yard line, where Berg, on a third-and-18 situation, passed to Strandemo at the ten-yard strike as the third period ended...
...Secretaries. Within minutes of the blackout, practically every hotel room in town was taken, and hotel lobbies, office couches and National Guard armories quickly filled with refugees. Some 80,000 stranded commuters slept in cavernous railroad stations. At Grand Central, one man was determined to get something more comfortable than a marble bench. "Kind of jokingly, I suggested he take a sleeper to Detroit on our Wolverine Express," said Ticket Seller Fred Hopkins. "So what does...
...nearby ships, the Bahama Star and the Finnpulp, rushed to the burning vessel and heaved close to. Both launched lifeboats for the passengers, yanked many out of the water after they jumped from the burning deck. Coast Guard helicopters dropped flares to help the rescue. A column of smoke from the stricken vessel rose 4,000 ft.; flames were visible 20 miles away...
Repealing the Toll. Singer arrived at Scripto during a crisis year in which profits plummeted 49%. Sluggish capi tal spending, vacillating management and a reluctance to diversify were taking a heavy toll. Singer, who tried his hand briefly as a guard for a profession al basketball team after dropping out of William and Mary in 1936, had just completed four years as president of Chicago's mattress-making Sealy Inc., where he boosted annual sales from $56 million to $81 million. As he saw it, Scripto's problem was divided into two parts. First he concentrated on management...
...captain. She--very busy writing down all our cheers as she walked--suddently looked up to find that she was all alone. Frantically clutching her pompoms and megaphone she went up to the nearest gate and tried to get in. "I'm a cheerleader," she explained, but the guard was unimpressed. After a few more abortive attempts, she finally managed to sneak in through the service entrance...