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Word: pros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senior. Major: physical education. Not notably fast but extraordinarily shifty and sure-handed on offense; blossomed this year on defense, piled up end sweeps, helped his team hold Army's famed halfbacks Anderson and Dawkins to 19 yds. rushing in 14 carries. The pros like him, but feel he must add a good deal of weight to withstand the inevitable pounding a player gets in the big time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Augusta National. Surfaced in a fine-strained Bermuda grass, the course winds along 7,110 yards of lake, coconut grove, ocean, ends at a Spanish-colonial mansion remodeled into a clubhouse. It goes into use Dec. 4 with a $35,000 invitational tourney for some 30 top pros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Tourist Card | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...time to shake friendly Humphrey-Freeman- McCarthy hands and hear out criticisms of Republican Ezra Benson (but rarely of respected Ed Thye) in one sitting. ¶ Put on new-style women's tours in which the wives-Muriel Humphrey, Jane Freeman and Abigail McCarthy, old friends, old political pros-went on two-to-three-day outstate swings, shook more hands, won women's votes. ¶ Backed up the campaign teams by unifying all campaign staffs, coordinating congressional candidates and county chairmen, setting up adjoining headquarters in St. Paul's dingy Capri Hotel, unifying all funds, spending wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINNESOTA: Victory by Organization | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Returning from Russia, British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman reported last week: "This decision not to publish Pasternak has caused a first-class sensation in Moscow. Indeed, I found every Russian anxious to talk to me about it and discuss the pros and cons." The sensation would continue, and Pasternak's recantation in Pravda was bound to widen the Russians' curiosity about the great work they were not allowed to read. Years ago Poet Pasternak had warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pasternak's Retreat | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Even his rival pros, who have cut down many a college star to size, speak of him with a respect that borders on awe. "He's the only player I know who can run faster sideways than he can straight ahead," says Pittsburgh's guard Dale Dodrill. Says the Steelers' speedy defensive halfback Jack Butler: "I don't really know how to stop him. I haven't been able to catch up to him yet." Los Angeles Linebacker Dick Daugherty, one of the surest tacklers in football, recalls the day last year that he zeroed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brown of the Browns | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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