Word: ol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other players would argue that Bobby has learned more than enough. He has been a football hero ever since his school days. Born in the "little bitty ol' town" of Santa Anna, Texas (pop. 1,600), Bobby was only six years old when his father died and he was sent to Fort Worth to live with an aunt and uncle. By the time he was ready for junior high, his adopted parents moved to Dallas, where he teamed up with a boy named Doak Walker on the football field of Highland Park High School...
...dragged from his studio audience. Howdy Doody is the sort of show that can be heard five miles on a clear day without benefit of transmitter. Currently, while its star Bob Smith is convalescing from a heart attack, Howdy features bewhiskered Gabby Hayes, who describes himself as "an ornery ol' coot" and adds little coherence to the muddled plot...
...Crimson lineup: ol, Godfrey Trustlow. il, Hank Holmes; cf, Mauricio Toro; ir, Dave Weiss or Bill Cowperthwaite; lhb, Carey McIntosh (C.); chb, Stacey Homes; rhb, Denny Little; fb, Hugh Sargent and Chuck Haddik; goal, Lindsay Fischer...
...business," says one of them (with some chagrin, now), "weather had never stopped us. We'd work through a blizzard or duster. So when we started on offshore oil, we said: 'To hell with the weather. What's a hurricane, anyway? Nothing but a big ol wind...
...hardy band of leftists gathered in Manhattan to huzzah for party-lining Singer Paul (Ol' Man River) Robeson, 56, and to protest the State Department travel ban that just keeps him rolling along in the U.S. only. Among the loudly cheered highlights of the rally was a cabled tribute to Robeson from aging (65) Comedian Charlie Chaplin, now in self-exile in Switzerland. A day later, for his "extraordinary service" in behalf of the Kremlin, Chaplin, along with Soviet Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, was awarded a peace prize (value: about $14,000) by the Communist-sponsored World Peace Council. Charlie...