Word: luncheon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking at the weekly luncheon meeting of coaches and writers, Weiland explained that the line would help to enforce a present rule which prohibits a player from taking more than two steps to check an opponent on the boards. "If a player is allowed to take more than two steps and gain momentum before he body checks his opponent on the boards," the Coach said, "he can cause a serious injury and is guilty of 'charging...
Weiland admitted he had not formally discussed his idea with any of the local coaches, but Coaches Harry Cleverly of Boston University, John Kelley of Boston College and Jim Bell of Northeastern all gave their approval to the proposed change in the rules at the luncheon...
Cake sales and community dances brought assembly-men and city councilors before the local public. Clubs, women's luncheon groups, and cocktail party statesmen served notice on the Democratic machine that they were tired of grubby candidates the calibre of Jimmy Roosevelt and Richard Graves. Years '52-'56 were the years of building, the hours of the amateur and the liberal, November mornings with young men like Richard Richards. Issues became important...
...winter of 1957 the hour of idealism has expended itself. The little clubs and luncheon groups had seen Adlai Stevenson flop twice. Nights by the radio listening to returns embittered the early hopefulness...
...others, the Red leader had lined up antediluvian Prix Fighter Saint-René Taillandier, Novelist Jeanne Galzy and Germaine Beaumont, a jury sitter of indeterminate vintage ("Age is fiction"). The week before the balloting, three lined-up Simone voters came down with the grippe. In silence, at the deciding luncheon, the embattled ladies spooned their bombe glacée. When the voting began, the committee was deadlocked, but under pressure from Madame Simone, one Blue member began to abstain. Snarled another Blue: "My poor friend, once again you have understood absolutely nothing!" The third abstention, on the seventh ballot, allowed...