Word: pack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Lion quarterback Benham completed 16 of 31 passes while the Crimson's failure to pass allowed the Columbia defense to pack in and limit the Crimson running attack to a mere six first downs. Even if the Crimson can't stop the efficient Beagle, it must disguise it own single wing offense with enough passing to keep the Dartmouth defense honest...
Under the present system, a runner in the back of the pack is often very despondent. For he knows that the more points he brings in, the further back his team will place. Many runners in five-mile championship meets have dropped out, more out of disgrace than anything else. Now, in a three team race, there is very little desire to finish 14th in a field of 15. Under the proposed system, though, the 14th man would be adding two points to his team's total, an affirmative finish, not killing it with 14 points...
...position of Assistant Attorney General (while in that job, Jackson ardently supported President Roosevelt's effort to pack the Supreme Court), thence to Solicitor General and, in 1940, to Attorney General...
...Senate days he generally voted with the New Deal, e.g., for the Wagner Act and the NRA (which he later denounced), but Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park could not long remain the leader of Patrick Anthony McCarran of Reno. Their great split was over the 1937 attempt to pack the Supreme Court, but long before then there had been portents of things to come. Within a week after being sworn in, McCarran made a Senate speech against an Administration-backed cut in veterans' pensions. The bill passed, and McCarran learned a lesson he never forgot: he discovered that...
...Miller (345 pp.; Viking; $3.95). Author Miller, whose second novel, That Winter, showed him as a man who could write without having observed, has produced his fourth novel and can now safely be placed with that group of contemporary novelists who might be called Circumstantialists. The Circumstantialist, like the pack rat, cannot bear to throw anything away. Meticulously, he collects and records every circumstance of his characters' lives. Turning over every last scrap of detail, he seems to hope desperately that somewhere he and the reader may catch some glimpse of a real life beneath the litter of facts...