Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mutt & Jeff. St. Louis began shooting L.I.U.'s zone full of holes with speed and fancy fingertip passing. On the bench sat tough, little (5 ft. 6 in.) Ed Hickey, once a practicing lawyer, now the brain of the Billikens. Coach Hickey wasn't nervous (he said). Always at close hand was his briefcase, crammed with diagrammed plays, notes and scouting reports. The other man who made the Billikens go was towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Charles Edward...
...Easy Ed") Macauley, the All-America with the face of a choir boy. They complemented each other like Mutt & Jeff...
...warden's wife. She has not a good word for anybody who does not fall with her. She should remember that she is ... at best only a washerwoman and not too clean at that. She thinks she and her poor half-witted man own the church. . . . You poor mutt. . . . You [and your wife] are a bright couple of spiving gluttons...
...Tokyo again, the Akai family built a tidy shack on the ruins of their old home. While they huddled over a charcoal fire, as the midnight gong beat out the old year, Akai San heard a scratching at the door. Outside, a shabby dog whined and howled. "Go away, mutt!" shouted Akai, but the dog waved his tail and, crawling on his belly, came even closer. Suddenly recognition came. "It's Fifty Bells!" shouted Akai, hugging the dog, while the family gathered in wonder...
...Yankees, as usual, relied on their Mutt & Jeff combination. The little man was swift, 5 ft. 5 Buddy Young, star Negro halfback of last year's University of Illinois team, who has kept enemy defenses loose and wide all season. With him as a decoy, big Spec Sanders, whose shoulder is higher than the top of Buddy's head, found it easier to rip inside tackle for big gains. Sanders, who didn't make the first team at the University of Texas, has gained more yards this year-1,384-than any other back in pro football...