Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday is the day Art Valpey and Herman Hickman are supposed to dust off all the razzle-dazzle plays they haven't used so far this year, but actually it's unlikely that Valpey will resort to any of the new plays he has cooked up this fall--unless...
Unlike Dominican Dictator Trujillo, Tacho kills a man only as a last resort. A spell in jail usually brings an enemy around. If jail fails, the Guardia has a little electric device known as la maquinita. A wire is wrapped around the prisoner's scrotum, and if he is stubborn, the current is turned on. There are Nicaraguan exiles in Guatemala who cry in their sleep about the Little Machine. "Oh, hell," snorts Tacho, "that damned thing isn't so bad. I've tried it myself-on my hand...
Incentive. Gum King Philip K. Wrigley, tired of losing money on his Santa Catalina Island resort (it has showed a profit only twice in 29 years and is losing $750,000 this year), began to lease a Catalina hotel and some bungalows to employees. Said Wrigley: "A manager with a lease . . . will work a little harder . . . and doesn't need as many assistants...
...germs to William Darling Shepherd for the purpose of murdering his rich young ward, Billy McClintock. Faiman got off by turning state's evidence. A witness testified during the trial that Faiman had operated an unsavory St. Louis "massage-parlor" and was "doctor in chief" of a similar resort in Detroit...
Should it rain, the Crimson will cancel its aerial plans for a through-the-middle game, with large Paul Shafer spinning, but the coaching brain trust is hoping that it will not have to resort to this type of play, for the general pattern of practices this week has emphasized the wide-open, Columbia-game type of attack, with end-arounds and passes the keynote...