Word: rodding
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...farms in Australia and one in Rhodesia, a mansion in London's Mayfair. Known as a tough taskmaster, Hardie likes to relax with a good cigar, slips away as often as he can for a day's hunting or fishing. His hand is as deft with a rod as with turning a handsome profit. Winston Churchill dubbed him "one of these rare birds, the millionaire Socialist ... a successful businessman, a past master of monopoly, who has made an immense fortune by 'private greed,' and who, without in any way relinquishing it, has become a convinced Socialist...
...evenly-contested middle period was only 3:13 old when Doug Anderson converted Carl Timpson's pass into a 45 foot shot that slipped under the stick of Tiger goalie Rod Cole. Weeden got it back six minutes later while Johnny White was sitting out a penalty and the period ended in a 2 to 2 deadlock...
There was one hitch: neither Lindsay nor Petersen knew much about hot rods or publishing. By haunting Southern California race tracks, they learned the lingo, found that "herding a goat" meant driving an old racing car, that a "jug" was a carburetor, that a "featherfoot" had a light throttle touch. Then a neighborhood engraver showed them how to lay out pages; a printer taught them to proofread. With $859 scraped up from trusting advertisers and friends, Hot Rod magazine appeared in December...
...Rod Editor Wally Parks still drives to work in a half-souped 1929 Ford (Evans heads and manifold); Motor Trend Editor Walter A. Woron drives a 1950 Ford with a Cadillac grill. Editor Robert Greene of Cycle put-puts to work on his Harley-Davidson 61. But Publishers Lindsay and Petersen now arrive in blue stock-model 1950 Cadillacs...
Eliot upset Kirkland's 'B' league leaders with the help of Hank Church's ten points, while Rod MacDougall scored the winning basket in Adams' close squeeze over Lowell. In the third game, Leverett upped its one-point margin at the half to beat Dunster going away...