Word: intact
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Individual stars of the entire show were the Harvard men guarding the drum, who combined quick work with the drumsticks and efficient body blocking with fast broken-field running towards the sidelines with their charge intact...
...starting halfback line remains intact thus far without any major injuries. Marsh Schwarz, Tony Oberschall, and John Felstiner play close behind the forwards to give them support needed to keep the ball within shooting range...
Wilson's freewheeling comments brought him plenty of drubbings from Congress and the press, but through the bitter days he kept his own sense of humor intact. "The price of progress is trouble," he once remarked, "-and I must be making lots of progress." The turning point probably came after Ike himself reproved Wilson for saying that the National Guard was a hideout for draft-dodgers during the Korean war. Wilson's wife Jessie promptly cracked right back at the President. She was "indignant" she said. "I think the President should have stood back of Mr. Wilson instead...
...chemicals into the figures to kill the termites that infested the wood, filled thousands of holes left by the insects, and then, with skillfully wielded knives, attacked five centuries of paint. Art Expert Marian Slonecki and 20 assistants labored for three years, scraped down through four layers to find intact the centuries-old blue and gold, "the original bright Stoss colors that we wanted...
Some 25 managed to board the one lifeboat that was left intact; ten more climbed into a damaged one. Several times during the long night that followed, rescue vessels passed close by, unable to hear the survivors' frantic calls for help, which were swallowed in the roars of the still raging sea and wind. In the damaged lifeboat, five men died of exhaustion and exposure during the next 54 hours. By the third morning the remaining five, living armpit-deep in water, were almost too weak to move. That afternoon, as if by magic, the great steel...