Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...partly to blame. When they clubbed students (and were themselves clubbed) in breaking up an anti-bases demonstration last fortnight, they unwittingly gave the agitators a big boost. Thereafter, calm discussion of the bases deal was impossible. Politicos, their eyes on next May's presidential election, began to play it safe. Last week, after 10,000 people paraded outside the National Assembly, a special committee brought out reservations designed to sidetrack the agreement...
...manners. Seven seconds before the game's end, the Leafs, with a dramatic sally, salvaged a 4-4 tie, and kept their slim, one-point league lead. The game's flashes of roughness were as old as hockey itself, but the pell-mell style of play was something fairly new. It was certainly a long way from prewar hockey...
Shinny Style. A change has come over professional hockey in the past five years. At first, the change was blamed by some fans on inferior wartime players. Connoisseurs of team-play began missing one of the game's biggest thrills: the sight of two wings and a center flashing abreast down the ice', two enemy defensemen getting set for impact, the deft passes, the shot, the clear-cut scoring play. Instead, they saw a game that was more like high-pressure "shinny...
...than for two defensemen to hang back behind their own blue line when the action is at the other end of the ice. This form of mass attack was formerly used only when a team was behind, or the enemy was shorthanded; now it is the accepted style of play. The trick is now to carry the puck up to midice, then bat it down in the general vicinity of the enemy goal, with everyone but the goalie scrambling after it. More goals are made: scores now read 5 to 4 instead of 2 to 1. This season, with...
...regular on NBC's Grand Ole Opry, now has his own five-day-a-week transcription programs. In Manhattan a reporter asked him whether he really had been a plowboy. Said he: "Boy, I sure did plow. That's why I wanted to learn to play that guitar, so I wouldn't have to keep plowin' all my life...