Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lads next door, they swell with an extra pride: they know that most of those players will always play for Texas. Tempted though they may be by the green-backed promises of out-of-state scouts, stars from Texas' 900 league-organized high school teams make a habit of playing their college football at home. (Last season all eleven Abilene lettermen who earned football scholarships went to Texas colleges.) From the muscle foundry at Texas A. & M. to the modest athletic plant at Hardin-Simmons, Texas has more than enough football factories to find a place for its high...
...dole-hungry Nacionalista Congressmen, and he has promised another $60 million. Much of this money goes through Laurel's hands. But José is frowned upon by the church; he has an unsavory reputation as a hard drinker and a frequenter of nightclubs, where he has an irritable habit of picking on customers whose looks displease him. His victims are particularly annoyed by the fact that Laurel's bodyguards protect him from justifiable retaliation...
...sidelines for a long, tough season. Then he busied himself by getting married once more. But his new wife has been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy, and his most outrageous hunches still have a habit of paying off. Last year he fired the touchdown pass that put Minnesota in front of his former alma mater; he scored twice against Illinois, twice more against Michigan to win back the five gallon Little Brown Jug. Last week against Washington he completed four passes and carried the ball...
Lieut. Hillman Robbins Jr., 25, is a ground-bound Air Force desk jockey who suffers variously from low blood pressure, an allergy to early-morning reveille and an exasperating habit of lunging at his tee shots and turning his head on putts. A crack amateur golfer, Robbins gains a kind of circular compensation from his failings on the course: fouled-up shots beef up his blood pressure, his energy expands and his game improves accordingly...
...will not be surprising if we come out with a deficit this year." BOAC Chairman Gerard d'Erlanger took his own swipe at Bristol when asked if the line expects prompt delivery on its order for 15 Boeing 707 jetliners. Growled he: "American manufacturers do have a habit of being on time...