Word: ramblin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Athens, Ga., in a feudin' atmosphere that made the Hatfields and McCoys seem like good neighbors, the University of Georgia made a ramblin' wreck of Georgia Tech (34-to-0), blasting its dream of an undefeated season-just as its own dream had been blasted by belittled Auburn the week before. The Georgia team immediately turned down a bid to the nearby Sugar Bowl at New Orleans, accepted a bid to the Rose Bowl at Pasadena...
...youngsters on the floor struck up a song: I'm a ramblin' wreck from Georgia Tech. The others joined in for a moment, then the song faded out. Another tried a ballad about a certain Nelly. That, too, died away. Around the tight, smiling lips of one of the singers a tiny rim of white began to show. Among the seated men ran a quick patter of jokes: about limber legs, and that old feeling below the knees, and how lucky they were to be jumping from 1,000 feet instead of 750, which is pretty...