Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three big reasons-not in any sense secret-why Coach Rupp's team has been burning up the courts for four seasons. One of them is blond, 5 ft. 10½ Ralph Beard, his gum-chewing "quarterback." A master dribbler and playmaker, Beard usually starts the play pattern, picking one of Kentucky's basic 20 (ten for each side of the court), featuring ball-handling and the inside-screen. The other two: 6 ft. 7 Alex Groza and 6 ft. 4 Wallace ("Wah Wah") Jones, who do the heavy scoring up front. What rival coaches kept asking themselves...
Eisler, recently appointed Professor of Political Science at the Leipzing University, was described last year as "America's number one Communist" by the Luce publications. Most of the activities of the new club will follow the pattern of the Eisler meeting...
Last week the Displaced Persons Commission reported that the 80th Congress' Wiley-Revercomb law was just what Harry Truman had called it-"a pattern of discrimination and intolerance wholly inconsistent with the American sense of justice." The law, the commission declared, was "all but unworkable." Because of its restrictions, only 2,499 had been admitted in the first six months of its operation (it was scheduled to admit 205,000 in two years). The law excluded thousands of Jews and Catholics who fled from postwar pogroms and Communist coups. As written, the law also required job assurance for adolescents...
...stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured on sport pages as a bearded hillbilly leading a forlorn hound dog. Except for special occasions, the attendance followed the pattern of the pre-World War I days, which a mournful St. Louis sportwriter once characterized by saying solemnly that "the fans were staying away in large numbers...
...Miler Ingvar Bengtsson, and a baritone sang The Star-Spangled Banner. The crowd sat back to wait for Slykhuis and Bengtsson. No foreigner had ever won the Wanamaker Mile, but now that the mighty Gil Dodds had retired, the invaders seemed to have a fine chance to break the pattern...