Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarming man-for-man defense stifled the Crimson efforts completely until 2:32 had elapsed in the first period, when Bob Repetto finally hit on a one-hand set shot from outside. Meanwhile, the Eagles' race-horse fast breaks gave them several two-on-one and three-on-two situations, most of which were cashed...
Then later at the pool-hall I got into another conversational circle with some up-and-coming young professional men from the Syndicate. They were all talking about the South, but I was able to join in easily with an off-hand remark about Governor Almond's blowing "off his mask of cool legality" and taking "to the air waves like a latter-day Faubus." Then one of my business-leader friends told me that Almond has acquiesced to the court orders and had persuaded the emergency session of the Virginia legislature to go along with him in destroying massive...
...however, the Virginia scholarship program is deleterious not only from the viewpoint of the northern liberal but from that of the southern moderate as well. For it represents another weakening of public education as a whole, an official discouragement of the compulsory public school system. With one hand the state government supports a free school establishment, while with its other it is paying those citizens who do not wish to use it. Such provisions insult, if they do not impair, the rights of Negroes; they prolong hopes for avoiding ultimate integration in that state where it can be achieved with...
Ingo begins his fights with the cautious air of a businessman sizing up a major deal; then a purposeful mood of profit taking falls upon him, and he unleashes the right hand. It has brought him twelve knockouts in his 21 pro fights, all of which he won. No windmill mixer, Ingo is so conspicuously unmarked that he often works as a model. A paragon of gentlemanly rectitude outside the ring, he wears natty golf-club blazers, eats with his fork and never forgets his estate. After Patterson's diet of dreary semiamateurs (Pete Rademacher, Roy Harris), Ingo...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Insisting that its famed herd of playwrights has not deserted TV, CBS resuscitates Reginald (Twelve Angry Men) Rose, after two years' absence from TV, in a script about a poker game that gets out of hand. Among the inside straight shooters: Barry Sullivan, Franchot Tone, Gary Merrill...