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House athletics yesterday saw two games in the soccer and tackle and touch football leagues. No House could muster a sweep; in fact, turnabouts seemed to be the order...
With six minutes remaining, the Yardlings started the drive that would tie the game, again from their 38. Phil Houghey tallied on a pass from Mat Botsford, but Abrahamian's conversion attempt failed. Neither team could muster a scoring threat as time...
...felt that the student had acted only out of habit, but, says he, "there were a few liberals in the room who I knew would resent it if I showed no offense. So I turned around and looked at the fellow with as stern a look as I could muster." Washington never heard "that word" again...
...Liberal leaders were braced for more or less painful losses, perhaps as many as 60 seats of their 1949 bloc. But the voters decided otherwise. Early on election night, the Liberal total soared to 170 seats and was still climbing. The Progressive Conservatives (Tories), the leading opposition party, could muster fewer than 60, with most of the remainder split between the minority Social Credit and CCF (socialist) Parties, and a scattering of independents...
Poor old Jersey Joe ducked, clinched and backpedaled with all the grace he could muster, but it wasn't enough. With less than two and a half minutes gone in the first round, Marciano landed with a left and right to the jaw, and Jersey Joe bowled to the canvas. He sat there, a glazed look in his eyes, while the referee counted ten. Then he popped to his feet, as if ready to go on fighting. But the fight-as it was billed-was all over. Jersey Joe's share of the receipts was a quarter...