Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes things good in the fact that from last year's runner-up teams for the Pentagonal League title, only six lattermen have graduated. An a result, the experience of what Coach John Chase calls a "pretty rough season" will be behind a big bloc of players...
...this helpful gesture from Harry Truman, who has no more use for John L. than John L. has for him. White House aides had an explanation that accounted for the politics involved, if not the economics: the President, as the avowed pal of labor, was not going to get rough with labor or even with John L.-if he could possibly squeak by without doing...
Fifty-two-year-old John Hynes is more a career civil servant than a politician, but he grew up in Boston's rough & tumble Irish politics. He quit school at 13, in the days when the help-wanted ads said "No Irish Need Apply," got a high-school education and law degree at night schools. He had climbed to the city clerk's job, traveling part of the way as an ally of Curley. When Curley went to jail, City Clerk Hynes became temporary mayor, bitterly offended Curley's City Hall crowd by his efficiency and honesty...
Nobody was sure who started the rough stuff. The important difference was that Army did not allow its own share in the Donnybrook to take its mind off such chores as blocking and pass defense. And slowly Army's class began to tell...
...heels, he fired a par-smashing 68. That put him three strokes up on Gary Middlecoff, the dentist from Memphis who was U.S. Open champion and Snead's main rival for golfer-of-the-year. In the second round Sam hooked a tee shot into the rough for one bogey, chipped poorly for another, but wound up with a 70. Then Sam finished up in a blaze that left little doubt about who was golf...