Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the fullback doesn't go in motion, he provides the plunging power, either straight or after a fakeoff. John Powers and Jack Davison have been splitting the work, according to scout Bill Barclay's information. The quarterback does not carry the ball much except as a receiver on pass plays...
Last week, Un Tramway Nommé Désir rolled into Paris in the costliest production ever given a U.S. play in France. Adapter-Producer Jean Cocteau, Parisian jack-of-all-arts, had treated it to a few touches of his own. In each seduction scene, a spotlight shifted to a Negro woman doing a belly dance in the background. Cocteau had also salted the dialogue. One critic noted that he had used "merde at least ten times, and it was one of the milder expressions...
...sixth winter sport--squash--is taking something of a back seat, because Coach Jack Barnaby has to devote most of his time to the tennis team's fall workouts at Soldiers Field. The tennis team has more time for practice in fall than in spring, and Barnaby says it doesn't take the squash men very long to get ready...
...Trollope came prepared to appraise and evaluate the Union: it never occurred to her that from the moment she landed (at New Orleans) she herself would be the one to be roundly devaluated. To begin with, it was a "singular" shock to find that though every man jack of her American fellow travelers on the Mississippi chewed tobacco, reeked of whisky, ate with a knife and grabbed for the table "viands" with "voracious rapidity," one & all had apparently "arrived at high rank in the army...
...Crimson sailors finished in last place in the Pentagonal race for the Jack Wood trophy on the Thames yesterday. The Coast Guard Academy upset runnerup MIT in capturing the trophy, while Brown and Dartmouth took third and fourth places...