Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pennsylvania's right halfback opened the second quarter with a daring 35-yard breakthrough off the Crimson left tackle that tied the game 6-6. The third quarter was a stalemate, as both teams cancelled each other out in a series of long drives up and down the field...
...long are we going to maintain the fiction that the steel strike is a strike against the steel companies? At one time strikes were largely against the owners, but now, at least the big strikes are against the general public...
Star-Crossed. In Philadelphia, fired from his city job for a long string of absences and tardiness, J. Howard Johnson appealed to the local Civil Service Commission for his early reinstatement as law-enforcement clerk, explained that he was born under the astrological sign of Sagittarius, which makes him too restless to stay put in one spot for more than a few hours at a time...
...Fort Wayne, Ind. in early November. In some areas auto showrooms were empty, and building construction came to a halt. By week's end close to 300,000 workers outside the 500,000 in the steel industry nad been squeezed out of their jobs. Foreign competition was invading long-nurtured U.S. markets. The trade magazine Iron Age predicted that, even with settlement, the U.S. would still be feeling the steel shortages into next summer...
...showed that neither cold nor rain nor flu nor bronchitis could stay his hand, sank a 20-ft. putt with the custom putter (a duplicate of Bobby Jones's celebrated "Calamity Jane") that White House correspondents had given him early last month. Buoyed by that shot and, at long last, by the appearance of the sun, Ike finished his vacation in high spirits, and at weeks end flew home...