Word: scissor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time and again, Syracuse's winged-T play seemed to be going to the left when Negro Sophomore Halfback Ernie Davis suddenly flashed back to take the ball and smash through the right side of the West Virginia line in a scissor-like reverse. Twice, the sturdy (6 ft. 2 in., 205 lbs.), sprinting Davis got away for touchdown runs of 57 and 29 yds. When the defense shifted to contain him, burly Fullback Art Baker, an intercollegiate wrestling champion who can run the 100 in 10.1 seconds, blasted up the middle as undefeated Syracuse steamrollered...
...that the record budget can be kept in balance without tax increases. On the revenue side it will recommend continued excise taxes, will gamble that a business upswing by midyear will guarantee a higher level of tax revenue than in 1958. On the expense side, the Budget Bureau will scissor administrative non-defense spending; e.g., the Interior Department will start no new dam or reclamation projects (with the possible exception of the $400 million-plus Colorado River storage dam at Glen Canyon, Ariz.); nonessential defense spending for "chrome trimmed" military construction will...
Lint off the Mind. Straws in an ill wind, and then came the last straw: crime. Or was it punishment? Only a close reader of this closely written tale will be able to tell. The author does not scissor the story neatly out of whole cloth to a preconceived pattern; she rather lets the story woolgather its facts, like lint, off the top of Milt's mind. Milt's mind, it is true, often seems a mighty dull place to spend 310 pages, but even the dullness has its fierce effect. Without it, the author could hardly convey...
...active day began with the "Macfadden Bed Exercise," in which each mate turned outward on the double bed and put the limbs through slashing, scissor movements, meanwhile straining the torsos inward. There followed calisthenics before the open window, dumbbell exercises, headstands and one-legged squatting exercises. The body was by then sufficiently limbered up for a "ten-mile jog trot." Mary was excused from some of the more rigorous exercises when she was pregnant, so she could sometimes lie abed watching her husband. Physically, he was a striking specimen. His perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high...
Justice often, depends on such small points, Dr. Ford points out. The story was not just adolescent boasting, in this case. The scissor marks proved its truth...