Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stern stood pat on his offer of a, 12% general increase. Said he sternly: "Since 1936 ... we have had a gun pointed at our head, in the shape of a strike threat, at every Guild negotiation. This year, the gun was not only pointed but cocked before we even sat down...
...Bellboy touchdown and margin of victory by setting the Gold Coasters back deep in their own territory. When two penalties thwarted an attempt to score from the five, Lowell intercepted again on the 40, from where Bill Ayres drove to the 25. Loring Briggs flipped a short pass to Pat Bowditch in the fl at and Bowditch went over standing up. Dan Silver, whose kickoffs this season have suggested big-time football, booted the extra point...
What happens is funny, relevant and packed with real insight into the Washington circus. Pat Frank knows his bureaucrats and readers are beginning to have fears about this atomic business. Combine the two and you have several hours of pleasant, if feather-light reading...
...second half. Penn's method, under colorful Coach George ("Call Me George") Munger is mostly single-wing power, tricked up with a few reverses and a good passing attack. Munger believes in limiting his offense to a few basic plays, uses a metronome to get the timing down pat. Fellow Ivy Leaguers moaned that Penn had outgrown the football played by Harvard, Yale, etc., and once more debated whether to drop Penn from their schedules. But Penn had looked mighty before and then collapsed (last year Army humbled her 61-0). The game with Army two weeks hence should...
First, take a top, sure-fire star (Van Johnson). Add a pretty girl who can sing (Pat Kirkwood). Throw in a skilled comic (Keenan Wynn) and a couple of "name" orchestras (Guy Lombardo and Xavier Cugat). Never mind the plot. Van Johnson, looking winsome for the better part of two hours, is all the romance his bobby-sox worshipers really want. Wynn can handle the laughs...