Word: passers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Norfolk was more than ready for them. Its two star debaters, Murdo the Robber and Bill the Bad Check Passer, had spent weeks getting ready for the occasion. They had studied in the library, written to Washington and the American Medical Association, pored over reams of statistics and dozens of reports. Like Oxford, Norfolk had an honorable record to uphold. In 16 years of "intercollegiate" debating, it had taken on such teams as Harvard, Princeton and M.I.T. Its score: 34 victories, 4 draws, only 14 defeats...
Political Camouflage. Finally, Bill the Check Passer rose to speak, and his argument was just the sort of thing his audience understood. "Guests of Norfolk, voluntary and involuntary," he began, "a free national health service will not make medical services better, but worse. The neurotics and malingerers will swamp our doctors and make it impossible for them to tend the really sick. I have been an unwilling native in a socialist Utopia for some time, and I know it will not work . . . This talk of free service is just political camouflage...
...this passer I sent a coach to the junior college Little Rose Bowl game in California. Another went to Texas and the Juco Bowl game there. Still another went up to Iowa. One of my coaches found a passer in Texas. He was a real honey. We had this prospect flown to the campus. We paid all expenses, fed him steaks and introduced him to all the important alumni...
...commented on Ederer's pitching on the wingback reverse pass that set up Harvard's first touchdown. "We knew about the play, of course," he said, "but the boy wasn't supposed to be any good. He was supposed to be just another thrower--but he looked like a passer...
...northward with salt. But they found Hoa Binh burned-out and deserted. The only local inhabitant to meet them was pretty 25-year-old Nguyen Thi Ky. Her arms loaded with silver bracelets, her teeth painted an artistic black, she nervously approached the paratroopers, holding out an old laissez passer bearing General de Lattre's picture. When Nguyen Thi Ky explained that she had known a French officer in Hoa Binh in the good old days and would like to renew the acquaintanceship, the paratroopers gave her apples and cookies, sent her off to bring back her people. That...