Word: orneryness
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No aged millionaire ever had more solicitous relatives than cantankerous Texan James Sexton, who controlled 378 oil wells and owned 9,000 acres in cattle ranches. The relatives-a sister and four nieces-felt entitled to be watchful, for at 70, James Sexton was acting kind of ornery. That was...
So it went all through the game at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium. The ornery Middies even upset the odds makers. They were picked by the bettors to win by six points. But they swamped the Army 14-0, and they did the job so thoroughly that the final score...
In his TV debut, Playwright Jerry Mc-Neely, 29, deserved credit not only for an original fancy but for making his fable's dilemma both wonder-struck and plausible in the telling. By ingenious design, his exchanges between Mr. White and Mr. Black abounded in ambiguously open-ended clues...
¶ Nicked on the wrist by an inside fast ball, Milwaukee's First Baseman Joe Adcock, on the way to first base, fired back some opinions of the Giants' Pitcher Ruben Gomez. Righthander Gomez, who combines a fast lip with his fast ball, replied in kind, and Adcock...
Maybe his take from pro tennis is falling off; maybe he was just feeling ornery.