Word: passer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...game, regardless of the team's prospects for the coming season. In the years just past these prospects have been dubious, to say the least, with strained optimism frequently buoying up the hopes that some heavy tackle now to the squad "will pan out later" or some tolerable looking passer "will complete a few in actual combat." This year the optimism is not strained. While leveller heads will insist that every team in the country is loaded, that the best bet on nine out of any tea games this fall will be even money, and that the Crimson in particular...
...night last week at half a dozen or more busy street corners in London, a passer-by could stop and hear an old-fashioned soapbox speech on politics. It was a new fashion of the Conservatives, who suddenly seemed to be under the influence of a big dose of triple-strength Benzedrine. They got a lift from a Gallup poll. It showed a Tory gain and a Labor loss in public popularity in the last year; they were now neck & neck, and if an election were held this week it might be either's neck. Moreover, the street meetings...
Police reported that at 10 o'clock an auto collided with a U. S. mail truck parked outside the Post Office Annex, and that the smash-up drove the smaller vehicle off the bridge. Biddle, a chance passer-by, quickly dove in after the disappearing...
...started on Saturday afternoon, when Vag was walking past Adams House, rejoicing at the belated arrival of spring weather. From a C-entry room the radio blared forth the progress of the Boston city series, and a horn-rimmed passer-by, recently emerged from the Grolier Book Shop, remarked in disgust, "don't tell me that nonsense is starting again!" Vag smiled contentedly, reflecting for perhaps the thousandth time that Cambridge was one of the few places in America where such sentiments were commonplace...
...Halfback Frank Filchock played almost the entire game with a broken nose. In the final quarter, the weary Giants collapsed. The Bear's great passer Sid Luckman, who had not carried the ball all year, decided to run with it. He plunged up the middle, brushed aside two Giants, went 19 yards for the deciding touchdown. A few minutes later, the Bears cinched the championship with a field goal. Score: Bears 24, Giants...