Word: lone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Putting Stahura at halfback, although it weakens the quarterback spot, gives added depth to the varsoity attack, since Stahura will presumably do some passing from the running halfback position. Thus, the threat of pass will be much stronger than when Stahura was the lone passer in the backfield...
...Lone Wolf. For Mike Benedum it was also the capper on as fabulous a career as the fabled oil industry has ever seen. He has had a hand in virtually every major U.S. oilfield, and wound up with a personal fortune estimated at something like $250 million.* "I've always been a lone wolf," says Benedum. "I started as one and I'm finishing as one. I may be the last "of the breed...
North Carolina. In a token appeasement of the Federal Courts, Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem this semester admitted a total of 13 carefully screened Negroes to white schools. The lone Negro pupil at Charlotte's Harding High School withdrew last week in the face of continuing harassment. The Greensboro and Winston-Salem pioneers were still holding...
...that Bulganin is plainly on the skids, Mikoyan is being talked of as his likely replacement for Premier. In Khrushchev's eyes, Mikoyan, the lone operator, has the merit of never having tried to build up his own party machine. The delay in pushing out Bulganin suggests that although Khrushchev has bested his rivals, he still has powerful opposition to contend with. The deadly struggle for power that began with Stalin's death four years ago is not yet ended. Who would know that better than Mikoyan...
...Miss Gibson." wrote Tennis Great Alice Marble angrily in American Lawn Tennis, "is over a cunningly wrought barrel, and I can only hope to loosen a few of its staves with one lone opinion. I think it's time we faced a few facts. If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it's also time we acted a little more like gentlepeople and less like sanctimonious hypocrites...