Word: scouting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...four days, balding, humorless Post Office Attorney Calvin Hassell, a pious man and a Boy Scout worker, led witnesses on a sexy jaunt through a collection of ribald material culled from eleven Esquires. Spectators had the most...
...Stagg had still not had his fill of football. He took his second lifetime job, coaching at Pacific. As at Chicago, his wife was his chief scout. In ten years, with poor material, he won less than half his games. Pacific sometimes grumbled that the Old Man was aging and should gracefully retire. But Stagg stubbornly continued to teach his boys to play...
Born in Wahpeton, N.D. on July 14, 1914 ("Bastille Day, and my whole life revolves around freedom"), he was an outstanding Boy Scout, a college (Macalester) and university (Minnesota) undergraduate of formidable achievement: debating, editing, football, basketball, hockey, track...
...Cardinal scout signed Dean as a cockeye after watching him pitch rocks at squirrels. Dizzy patiently explains: "I throw so hard with my right arm that I squash up them squirrels somethin' turrible and they ain't fit eatin'. . . . When I'm out rustlin' up our grub ... I got to throw left-handed...
...every broadcast, Hope's scripters scout for atmosphere, poke into the files for gags that can be retrimmed, dream up new ones. Then they put their heads and hoards together, producing a script that Hope proceeds to tear apart-cutting, sharpening, fitting to character. Finally, before the Tuesday night broadcast (NBC -10 p.m. E.W.T.), there is a Sunday night sealed-in-the-studio tryout at which the audience acts as blue pencil and Hope runs hog-wild...