Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity hockey team spent a disappointing Christmas vacation in the midwest, playing five teams and losing six games. Before leaving on this trip however, the Crimson showed it was still a power to reckon with in the East by easily defeating Middlebury...
...seem you're ever at the ranch when I come by." Marley's ghost wore a ten-gallon hat, toted a burden of land grants, mortgages and gold nuggets, and the Ghost of Christmas Past was a young cowpuncher who greeted Scrooge: "Howdy, pardner. I reckon you've been expecting me." For an idea that might have driven some viewers to Earp, it all went down quite smoothly, suggesting the not altogether happy possibility that A Christmas Carol may endure on TV till the cows come home. It also stirred some speculation about what the dickens...
...public-links pro back home in Memphis. Dentist Taylor managed to keep in contention until the 24th hole, then he began to come apart. Racking up pars and birdies with ease, Lieut. Hillman Robbins won himself the U.S. Amateur championship, 5-and-4. Said he: "I don't reckon I'll ever give that putter back...
...height of the air-travel boom the U.S. airline industry is moaning low. Though revenues for the first five months of 1957 hit a record $618 million, the airlines reckon their total net operating income at barely $14 million-down by a staggering 63.5% from last year. Five of the twelve major trunk lines-Capital, Northeast, Northwest, United and Trans World Airlines-reported that they were operating in the red, and airline shares have lost 30% to 40% of their market value since 1955. This week, after a long, bitter campaign, the airmen will present their final arguments...
Giraudoux's play, based on the Greek legend of Zeus' rape of Alcmene, wife of Amphitryon, illustrates that neither the wiles of men nor the caprices of gods are effective against the constancy of devotion of a wife (Alkmena.) Jupiter attempts to rape Alkmena but discovers he must reckon with a woman far too intelligent to be led astray by passion...