Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fullback line should be very strong, with Captain Floyd Moloy starting on the left and Lanny Keyes, an All-Ivy pick last year, on the right. Tom Bagnoli, who alternated with Jim Perkins last year, will open this afternoon's game in the goal...
Despite the fact the series was opening in Milwaukee--where it also will end if it goes more than five games--the Yanks were favored at 7 to 5 odds in man-to-man betting. The opener was regarded an even money affair, 6 to 5 and take your pick...
...they can be received with good freedom from jamming at any place on earth where the moon is in the sky; 2) there is also a worthwhile possibility that the great telescope, which concentrates radio waves as a big optical telescope concentrates light waves, will be able to pick up radio evidence reflected off the moon that somebody on earth has exploded a nuclear device or launched a powerful missile...
...Robinson displays an amazing knowledge of six, seven, and eight-letter words, including poniard (spelled poignard, with which Webster is unfamiliar, on the preceding page by Harry Kemp, described as "a former friend of Eugene O'Neill") and cautery, the household word of course for what happens when you pick up a hot frying...
...Little Moon of Alban), arrives in turn-of-the-century Miami, where he harkens to tales about Cottonmouth (Burl Ives), a red-bearded snake charmer off in the Everglades whose band of swamp angels (including such old Thespians as ex-Pug Tony Galento, Clown Emmett Kelly, Jockey Sammy Renick) pick off the wildlife like hungry dogs in a horsemeat factory. Modern hunters would do well to study their technique: every bird they shoot falls within 2 ft. of their boats...