Word: mentored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dirt surface in Briggs Cage was tarred over last year to serve as basketball courts for the various Navy and Army training units, Tootell had to do his practice tossing on the hard surface with a heavy, india-rubber shot. But under the daily training of Coach Mikkola, former mentor of Finnish Olympic track teams, he soon had the Boston scribes taking notice...
...north Rokossovsky's forces, with a thundering echo of history, pierced a memorable spot: Tannenberg. There the Russians looked upon the huge tomb of Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, There Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler's onetime mentor, Ludendorff, had cut to pieces a Russian army in one of World War I's classic victories. When the Germans struck in 1914, the Russians were at the same points they passed this week-Gumbinnen in the northeast, Tannenberg in the south. But this time there were also vast differences : 1) Ludendorff's daring now appeared to be possessed...
...greatness. At the beginning, in a Scottish village, he has no desire to take holy orders. He is brought to it by his sweetheart's death and by a benign old Monsignor (Edmund Gwenn) who talks, not too urgently, about the will of God. It is this same mentor who sends the young priest, when he has come to regard himself as a hopeless failure, a thousand miles deep into 19th-Century China, to install himself in a leaky stable near a ruined church, and to endure as he may the insults of the anti-Christians who defile...
Contrary to popular belief, Stahl is not merely a baseball man filling in as hoop mentor. His basketball coaching record is nearly as full and impressive as his baseball work, and his experience just as extensive...
...informal wartime basketball, he considers the play a little less polished than in peacetime, with less veteran material to draw on. The short, efficient hoop mentor points out that on last winter's starting lineup were two men who had never played basketball in secondary school...