Word: outfit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Myers' gift showed up somewhat late. As a youngster in Troy, Ohio, he preferred the fife to football. "My mother made my brother Mike a football outfit," he says. "She made me a band uniform." But Tommy turned out for football in the seventh grade, became a quarterback largely by the process of elimination: "I wasn't fast enough to be a halfback, and I wasn't big enough to be a lineman." At first, he threw his passes sidearm-which mattered little, because Troy High never passed anyway: the star of the team...
Undoubtedly the best game of the day with an Ivy team takes place in Hanover, where Holy Cross checks in. The Crusaders, as we all learned last Saturday, are a first class outfit. Dartmouth, as Brown discovered, has strength to spare...
...sketchy story was briefly and inconspicuously reported by British and French newspapers; last month Radio Liberty, an emigre broadcasting outfit in Munich, beamed the rumor back to Russia. Among the circumstantial supporting evidence: 1) the entire Rostov region was suddenly declared off limits to foreign tourists in June, supposedly because of a cholera epidemic, although a major track meet was held on July 8 and Russian citizens were allowed to move freely in the allegedly disease-ridden area; 2) Novocherkassk imposed a curfew on young people, to remain in effect for two years; 3) Nikita Khrushchev's second...
...gentle a painter, George Inness was occasionally a trial. When his father, a Newark merchant, got him a job in a store, young George hid from the customers until the customers ceased to come. He worked with a map-making outfit for a while, quit in a huff, then returned and quit again. Finally, he settled down to painting, with just enough sales and help from patrons to support himself and his growing family...
Next week's Harvard opponents are the powerful Crusaders of Holy Cross. The Crusaders, unfortunately, are a very fine outfit, with a backfield that might disturb Princeton's coach Dick Colman. The Holy Cross quarterback, McCarthy, may be the best in the east...