Word: matchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eruptions & Clusters. Around the league this season, the pros are displaying a variety of play that college football cannot match. Canny, veteran quarterbacks such as Philadelphia's Norm Van Brocklin, 33, and Pittsburgh's Bobby Layne, 32, still dominate their teams. With a tricky, lateraling attack, the Chicago Cardinals can erupt for clusters of points. Last year's champion Baltimore Colts can field a covey of stars led by young (26) Johnny Unitas, a onetime reject from the Pittsburgh Steelers who is rated the best quarterback in football, throws touchdown passes from the shelter of the league...
...United States does not have another rocket for this shot, and it will be next fall before a rocket is ready which can match the present Soviet Luniks...
With words to match the splendor of his navy blue uniform trimmed with gold braid and epaulets, the Governor of Kenya rose in Nairobi's Legislative Council to deliver his maiden address. "There is a new government in England with a new Colonial Secretary, and a new Governor of Kenya," said Sir Patrick Renison. "In a glowing spirit of challenge and adventure, let us put the darkness behind us and look bravely to the future...
...informality gives priests plenty of leeway in where they go and what they do, though they are not often seen in nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their cassocks in public, are not supposed to smoke on the street or push baby carriages or carry large parcels, ride horseback except in rural areas, or eat alone at first-class restaurants. A priest should not be seen walking often with the same female-even his aged aunt-and a priest...
...sketches, where Dickens roves through the gin shops, the courts, the dawn-lit and night-curtained alleys of London with the gusto of a tourist and the unsentimental eye of a bobby covering his beat. But the rest of Charles Dickens' Best Stories is no match for the memory of Lionel Barrymore playing Scrooge...