Word: runners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Engineers' 60 points hurt the Crimson's 50.2 defensive average, which went up to 52.0. This was still low enough to retain the national defensive lead, as the runner-up Oklahoma Aggies had allowed 52.3 points per game at latest report...
...those who saw only the scores of the Arena Christmas hockey tournament it may have seemed a paradox that the varsity, in finishing first and winning the John Babine Trophy, found last-place West Point tougher to beat than runner-up Boston College...
...elder Sullivan had taken to drink. One of Allen's boyhood memories is of himself and his younger brother piloting the old man home after an all-day binge: "We looked like two sardines guiding an unsteady Moby Dick into port." He took an after-school job as runner and stack boy at the Boston Public Library at 60? a night. At a library employees' show, he did a juggling act that wowed his fellow workers. Soon he was haunting the dingy headquarters of a local amateur-night impresario...
...amiss: the show's plot was obvious. From the start it was clear that John George Diefenbaker, 61, of Prince Albert, Sask. would be elected leader of Canada's major opposition party. Ever since George Drew resigned because of ill health. Diefenbaker had been the front runner to replace him (TIME, Oct. 1). Diefenbaker did not campaign for the job and refused to ask a single delegate to vote for him. But support piled up steadily and weeks before the convention opened, there was little doubt that Lawyer Diefenbaker would win on the first ballot...
...nominate B. & K. Nasser is a good runner-up, but he forms only a chapter in the greater B. & K. volume...