Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Picked by many preseason seers to hang on to their national championship, Louisiana State University's Tigers fumed for the first half as Rice's quick-kicks rocked them back on their heels; but they came back in the second half with sturdy, sprinting All-America Halfback Billy Cannon leading...
...year-old Caddy Bob Valdes ("Best greens reader we've got," said Club Pro Ed Dudley). Then Nicklaus took his new putter and sank his eight-footer for a birdie three and the U.S. Amateur. New Champion Nicklaus was the youngest player to win the title in half a century...
...marriage, she all scorn for men-are so antagonistic for being so much alike. Fortunately, the dullards around them dream up one bright idea: they contrive that an eavesdropping Benedick shall hear that Beatrice absolutely dotes on him, that an ear-cocked Beatrice shall learn that Benedick is half dead for love...
...longstanding supplier, Douglas. Because of late delivery of the planes, Patterson gloomily forecast a $3 million to $10 million loss for 1959. Traffic did drop 20% on transcontinental routes, but United has confounded its president's prediction: the line showed a $7,000,000 profit for the first half, expects to end the year well in the black. United was helped by the general upsurge in air travel and the strikes that crippled other lines. It also judiciously changed its schedules to avoid its competitors' popular jets, increased its charter service for the first eight months...
...Hake's second in command, Lieut. Dolfus, and Lieut. Sulgrave, the commander's young aide, life on the island is a combination of boredom and premonition of disaster. The disaster is not long in coming; half a dozen enlisted men and Sulgrave are the only survivors. It is then that the Negroes get a grisly, ironic revenge on the commander. Looking for his body, they find only the head and shoulders. Into the improvised coffin go arms and legs, black and white, sufficient to provide a corpse for the military funeral Commander Hake is to get back...