Word: isn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...After three years," said the wife of a Radio Corp. of America missileman, "you get used to it." But the wife of a General Electric official contradicts her. "I've never gotten used to it, and I never will. Every time I hear a roar that isn't a jet, I break my neck getting outdoors. My husband never says anything, and if he comes home happy, I want to know...
...that he's in the doghouse, but that he isn't contributing to the overall picture...
...Redlegs themselves are the first to quarrel with Birdie's earthy formula. Good players can be the making of a good manager, but Birdie's success is proof enough that a good manager can be the making of good players. Says Outfielder-turned-PitcherHal Jeff coat: "Birdie isn't a manager at all, if you want to know the truth. He's a teacher. He has a big knack of showing a ballplayer the results of effort and ability. Instead of saying two and two is four, he gives a player a problem and lets...
...Isn't Reviewer Scheuer influenced by what Previewer Scheuer has written? "Well, I try to be detached," he says, "and, of course, often the preview has been written by somebody else on my staff." Even with staff help, he can claim the dubious distinction of enduring at least as much television, before and behind the screen, as anybody...
Small Print. In Tulsa, Ted Cobb, 9, during a tornado alert, hastily scribbled out and taped to his chest a "last will and testament," directing, "I leave everything I own to my friend George Draper Jr., if he isn't blown away first...