Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planned, Bill grew up to be a southpaw. But baseball was forgotten when the family moved to Oakland, Calif. Like any other youngster. Bill tried to imitate his older brother, who was a flashy, high-school basketball player. On the court Bill was ambidextrous, but he was mostly Pogo-stick legs and gawky elbows, too awkward to make the regular team until his senior year...
...some reason pre and post game activity reached a low ebb. A mild disturbance before the Yale game was the only bright spot, but most of the noise and spirit came from a hard core of beer-drinking Elis. Oldtimers sadly remarked that the days of Pogo riots will become legendary when the class of 1955 graduates, and Harvard apathy will even extend to riot-making...
...have heard discussion that if Harvard wins The Game this Saturday, it will be good reason to stage the first big riot in Cambridge since the Pogo era. I have been at Harvard for three years now and the undergraduate body has restrained itself remarkably well. Win or lose, I feel this week-end should not be the cause for breaking the admirable precedent these three years have established. Walter R. Winston...
...Brown Field, near San Diego, Convair's XFY-I "Pogo Stick" last week showed what it could do in free flight. Already dress-rehearsed in a blimp hangar (TIME, June 14), the plane now fully lived up to its billing as the Navy's first vertical-take-off fighter...
Standing nose up on its delta-wing tips and four castered wheels, the Pogo resembles an outsize badminton bird. Test Pilot Skeets Coleman started the 5,500-h.p. Allison turboprop engine, and the two counterrotating propellers slowly lifted the plane up to 175 ft. Then, still hanging on its propellers, Pogo nosed over; as it began to pick up speed, it also began to pick up lift from its stubby wings, soon was sailing along in conventional level flight. After two 280-m.p.h. sweeps over the field, Pilot Coleman raised Pogo's nose, hovered like a helicopter over...