Word: moss
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turn to Trouble. On the Malecón, the danger more familiar to Fangio began to haunt his fellow racers as they whirled into the long (315 miles) grind. Britain's Stirling Moss took the lead in a Ferrari, Missourian Masten Gregory, driving another Ferrari, was second. Fangio's Maserati, in Trintignant's hands, fell far back to 13th place. By the end of five laps, all the drivers saw that almost every turn was slick with spilled oil; they knew that they were in for trouble...
Last week the charges against Chandler and his fellow bird watchers were dismissed by Special Judge Anderson Moss on the ground that the afterhours regulation had not been published in the county newspaper (the rule had been set by Commissioner Wallace in the first place). And Happy had merely wounded the crippled goose. In fact, the only dead goose was Game Warden Thomas: he got fired...
...Heroic Soul: Poems of Patriotism (Decca). One of the "Parnassus" series on such primary emotions as love, faith, humor and patriotism. This record tempers its heroics with taste, especially in Arnold Moss's reading of Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and Longfellow's The Building of the Ship...
...first team also included end David Moss and guard Joseph Palermo from Dartmouth, tackle Joseph Hordubay of Penn, center Donald Warburton of Brown, and halfback Robert McAniff of Cornell. Last place Columbia was the only team without a representative on the first squad...
Libby will also bring to the U.S. Congress a flair for unintentional comedy. Dubbed "Mr. Malaprop" by the Chicago press, he refers to voters of Slavic ancestry as "Slavishes," once spoke of late autumn as the time of year when "the moss is on the pumpkin." Last week, asked why he had been keeping comparatively quiet since the primary, Libby replied: "I am trying not to make any honest mistakes...