Word: leaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touchdown pass. Then, outlasting a Rose Bowl jinx that twice saw California lose to the Big Ten in the final minutes, the hopped-up Trojan defense stopped two more Wisconsin drives inside the 30. Final score, for the West Coast's first victory in seven lean years against the Midwest...
Breaking the Sound Barrier (London Films; United Artists). The stresses & strains, mechanical as well as human, of supersonic flight in Director David Lean's British-made film; with Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd (TIME...
...When Michigan's Arthur Summerfield becomes Postmaster General next month, he will resign as Republican national chairman. Last week most of the G.O.P. speculation about Summerfield's successor was beamed toward one man: lean, relaxed Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 48. Roberts was working on his family's weekly Oskaloosa Independent (circ. 1,400) when he plunged into Republican politics in 1936. With time out for a World War II stint in the Marines, he served the Kansas G.O.P. and its state administrations in various jobs until 1950, when he got out of active politics to start...
...lean and fragile," said the scouting report. "He can't play the kind of football we play in this conference." Samuel Adrian Baugh (rhymes with law) was, indeed, lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 lbs.), but the rawboned Texan from Sweetwater was far from fragile. What's more, he wanted to play football so badly that he spent hour after hour throwing a ball through a swinging auto tire to learn passing accuracy. The practice paid off. Baugh was an All-America quarterback in 1935 and 1936 and led his Texas Christian teammates to victory in both...
Ulen's pessimism is perhaps justifiable on two grounds. First, most squads will be "up" for the Crimson. Secondly, the Crimson sadly lacks depth. "That's always been a trouble of ours--we've been lean. When we swim Yale, they have a bench full of guys in Blue uniforms streching from one end of the pool to the other. Our squad looks pretty small...