Word: play-by-play
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...plants last week as the workers picked up their copies of the company's newspaper, the Blast, they blinked at his latest example of understanding. The Blast looked more like a union handout than a company house-organ. On the front page was a play-by-play factual account of the convention of District 38 of the steelworkers. The issue carried pictures of the delegates and articles of union interest written by union members...
Something for the Boys. While waiting for him to die, and waiting their turn to shout the play-by-play into the hall telephone, souvenir-hunting correspondents helped themselves to everything that was loose. One pried the bullet out of the back of Tojo's chair. A photographer hobbled off with a samurai sword inside his pants leg, but an officer stopped him. "We stood around," Lee recalls, "smoking and talking and making bets on how soon Tojo's small chest would stop heaving." After two hours an Army doctor arrived...
Thrown off stride by the Praying Colonels from Kentucky, Coach Fisher's forces next journeyed to Princeton where the Tigers punched through a 10 to 3 victory, as hundreds got their gridiron thrills vicariously by watching electric "play-by-play" scoreboards at strategic places throughout the University. the Brown Bear, next week, could not contain the team that had been clawed by the Tiger, and in the pre-Yale tilt, the Crimson triumphed...
...cannot foresee the day when he'll be doing play-by-play sportcasts, "until they invent teletype in Braille," but he frankly hopes that his program will interest the networks. His chief worry: that a sudden shower at a game will ruin the perforated dots of his notes, leave him speechless at broadcast time...
...Colored, play-by-play, films of the Harvard-Yale game will be shown on the basketball floor of the Indoor Athletic Building, Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, according to an announcement last night by John B. Judkine, Jr. '47, newly-appointed football manager...