Word: phil
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...weakest positions last year are again sore spots this season. Without much in experience at ends, Jordan brought former quarterback Phil Haughey in to play the position left vacant. In pre-season practice, Haughey has been very encouragaing to the coaching staff, but he is known to be fragile, and an injury would really hurt the Crimson. Tom Hooper will play the other...
...passing attack seems to have solidified somewhat, for while Tom Hooper is temporarily incapacitated with a pulled leg muscle, some progress has apparently been made in finding men to play behind him and Phil Haughey...
What might be the final word on giveaways comes from TV comedy Writer-Director Nat (Phil Silvers Show) Hiken, who whimsically suggests a show called A Million or Your Life'. "The contestant will stand in front of the TV camera and face two gun barrels. He will have a string leading to the triggers on the two barrels. One will be loaded with a dud containing a check for $1,000,000-the other with a live 37mm. shell guaranteed to tear his head off. If he pulls the wrong string-kaputt...
...Tightening up for the late-season drive for the flag, the New York Yankees gave their longtime (13 seasons) Shortstop Phil Rizzuto, 37, his unconditional release to make room for a new outfielder. The new man: Kansas City's 40-year-old Enos ("Country") Slaughter. A remarkably durable relic of the old Cardinals, Country Slaughter was traded to the Yanks in 1954, sent to the Athletics last year...
...decades has in fact been the Wilsonian do-nothing attitude disguised in rhetoric. In any case, the reader may well feel that the last and best word on 1917 was spoken by Philip Jordan, the old Negro valet of Ambassador David Francis, whom no one asked for an opinion. Phil Jordan wrote home to Mrs. Francis: "It is something awful...