Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tufts finally got its only run in the bottom half of the fifth. Jumbo third baseman Hess, the benificiary of Del Rossi's only walk, advanced to third when Appleton lined a single to right. Hess scored on an error by Crimson shortstop Dave Morse...
...Kennedy added that he would recommend plans to protect consumers from packaging that is fraudulent and misleading. Frequently, he said, a buyer cannot figure the cost per unit of different brands packed in odd sizes, "or of the same brand in large, giant, king-size or jumbo packages. And he may not realize that changes in the customary size or shape of the package may account for apparent bargains, or that 'cents-off' promotions are often not real savings...
From Good to Great. At first, Villanova Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott was unimpressed with his new recruit. "He was lazy," says Elliott. "But sprinters are like that. They believe that God gave them their speed and all they have to do is lace up their shoes, comb their hair and run." Not until the 1960 Rome Olympics did Budd realize that work would make him a real champion. Unheralded and unnoticed, he placed fifth in the 100-meter dash-despite the fact that he was spiked in the foot by fellow U.S. Sprinter Dave Sime. "When Frank went to Rome...
...Williams. Four years later, he bought full-page ads in six Manhattan newspapers to complain that the art world was misleading the people with "obscurity, confusion, immorality, violence," demanded that the public rise up against the "high priests of criticism and the museum directors and the teachers of mumbo jumbo." Bolstering his messianic pronouncements with cash. Hartford got Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME cover. March 31, 1958) to design an ornate museum that was to be a counter to Manhattan's prestigious Museum of Modern Art (which, ironically, was also designed by Stone in his earlier, glass-box period...
Britain in Waughtime is a top-drawer, old-school-tie kind of place; many of the characters belong to a St. James club called Bellamy's (that might be Boodle's), have nicknames such as Jumbo, Fido, Uncle and Chatty, and take it as a matter of course that one wangles the job one wants in the war effort. They are also mostly members of a regiment called the Halberdiers, whose training in the early days of the war and blooding in the Dakar expedition of 1940 are described in Men at Arms (TIME...