Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must cast 100 ft. and more, often laying his goof within a foot of snags. His fingers must be sensitive and quick. A steelhead does not strike: he nudges the line as gently as a minnow. The expert recognizes the split second to jerk his rod and sink the hook. Then the whole river seems to explode...
...Paul Dubonnet, wife of the aperitif tycoon, once noted as "the best-dressed woman in Europe," renewed her pistol permit in Manhattan. She has been packing a rod ever since gunmen tried to rob her in a cab four years...
...timely a figure is that he lived in a time of civil war, when a 1500-year-old dynasty was disintegrating, and when the future was beyond man's imagining. He was an adviser of governors, traveling from one small warring province to another, a human divining rod, whose teachings served to reveal the good and the bad in the sovereigns while he tried to find one who would make his principles the guiding policy of the state...
...rest of the line-up remains unchanged, with Rod Perkins and Don Geeson at end, Jim Waterhouse and Bob Merrill, at tackle, Gibby King and Jed Goldberg at guard, Ed Donovan at cen- ter, Wally Trumbull at blocking back, and Dick Warren at wingback...
After some strategy shifts between the halves, the Crimson machine functioned all the way down the field, producing scores on 52 and 72 yard marches, with Paul Perkins plunging for the first, and brother Rod catching a pass for the other. Ed Donovan converted both times. A series of virtually unstoppable passes to six foot, four inch Fred Smith gave the Yanks a touchdown, bringing the score...