Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locker room, Swanson said, "I don't know if it hit my side or my hand; it's one of those plays you just can't tell about...
Later this fall the Crimson varsity plays both these teams, which are in a rebuilding stage and depend largely on the aggressive but often faulty play of numerous sophomores. Two of the Bruins' stars, halfback Tommy "T.D." Thompson and all-Ivy League tackle Jimmy McGuiness, agreed that the Green "hit harder than Yale or Columbia and their backs ran surprisingly well." But Thompson queried, "We certainly tied up Beagle, didn't we?" And they did. His passes gained only 79 yards Saturday, compared to his previous average of more than 125 per game...
...picture, written by Joseph Hayes, who has also compounded his felony into a hit play on Broadway, is based on his bestselling novel of the same name. It tells the story of an Indianapolis family held prisoner in its own home by three escaped convicts who are ready to do anything, and the worse the better, to avoid capture. The leader of the gang (Humphrey Bogart) is a sallow old paranoid with nothing to lose but his worst enemy, the cop (Arthur Kennedy) who put him away. Bogart's younger brother (Dewey Martin) is a mixed-up little slumbunny...
...Roberts. First-rate retelling of the long-run Broadway hit about life aboard a Navy supply ship; with Henry Fonda, James Cagney (TIME, July...
Forgotten Man. Were the thousands who hit the sawdust trail much different from what they were before they hit? Author William G. McLoughlin Jr., a political science professor at Brown University and Billy Sunday's first full-dress biographer, believes that most of the "converts" were already pious members of the rural middle class, giving themselves a resounding vote of confidence. Sunday's product was relatively painless. Only a hog-jowled anarchist, an evil foreign monarch or a bedizened society woman could object to it. Billy's converts did not have to wrestle with the Lord...