Word: ran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture is equally undistinguished from a technical standpoint. Shot in the wonderfully-colored southwestern badlands without benefit of Technicolor, "Four Faces West" is remarkable for the monotonous recurrence of the same scenery. Either they ran out of gas or the cameraman had gout, but the entire script, chases and all, could have been shot within a 25-foot circle. And the title,--ah, the title. Just what manner of animal has four faces all of which are turned westward is a nifty little mystery that can occupy your mind for at least five seconds. It could be the hero...
...Crimson showed better running backs than did Cornell. Hillary Chollet never ran with the finesse which Chip Gannon used on his 43 yard run shortly after the start of the second half. Frank Miller did not run back a kick all afternoon the way Ken O'Donnell did for 37 yards after Cornell's third touchdown...
...animal's teeth. "Six years old," he cried. "Correct," said the horse's owner. At Lexington, in Kentucky's bluegrass country, he compared himself to the wonder horse, Citation, in predicting a homestretch victory. At Shelbyville, Ky., he talked about his ancestry: "My grandfather Truman ran off with Mary Jane Holmes and was married here in Shelbyville and lived . . . out here west of town...
...Runner. Strom Thurmond has been running for something all his life. At first he ran for exercise, trotting around his father's farm in Edgefield, S.C., 54 miles from Columbia. When he went to Clemson Agricultural College he ran on the college cross-country team. He was a determined student who overcame a speech impediment by reading slowly for an hour every afternoon to a patient professor. Once his classmates threw him into the swimming pool for trying to shine up too much to the faculty. After graduation he taught school and began running for political offices. He became...
...came within one yard of having their biggest all-around day on offense in Columbia's 58 years of intercollegiate football (482-yard total, exceeded only by the 41-7 victory total over Lehigh in 1932), and 2) set an all-time Lion mark for first downs (they ran...