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With three minutes to play and the ball deep in Kirkland territory, Jenkins went off tackle and slipped through a solid wall of would-be tacklers for a 49 years jaunt to the Eliot 35 yard stripe. On the next play, Eliot was set back half the distance to the goalline on a slugging penalty and it appeared as if their unscored-upon record would be broken. finally, in one of the best plays of the game, Jenkins knifed through center from the third to give Kirkland the distinction of having scored the only touchdown of the season against...
Dewey wanted no nonsense, no barnstorming, no parades, flags or placards. His first two speeches, as he began his 6,700-mile jaunt to the West Coast and back, were short, crisp, and to the point-good examples of well ordered, factual courtroom talk. His tactical approach was to present one issue in each speech and ram that issue home so hard that the New Deal would be driven into long explanation...
Starting off with a 26-foot rope climb, the test will last for the better part of a week and will include, in addition to the rope climb, a landing not descent, 100 yard dash, 100 yard obstacle course--"The Guadalcanal Special,"--and lastly, a 3.7 mile cross-country jaunt along the river bank. The "Special," feature of this endurance test, is a straight sprint over walls, ditches, and sandtraps, a submarine dive, and finally zig-zagging through a maze of sandtraps and runways...
...brilliantly lit by warm Oriental stars as we hit the Yellow Sea and passed into the trickiest part of our trip-the long jaunt across the water. We put on our Mae Wests and settled down for the run that would bring us around midnight over Japan's biggest iron and steel works, on Kyushu Island. The senior gunner, Sergeant Allen, asked the pilot for permission to blow the guns: there was a chattering rattle all round us as Allen and his mates tested their powerful armament...