Word: scrambler
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...beautiful, unbelievable passer; he's a scrambler and has great split vision; he can run, and that makes it impossible to defend against him and he's a tremendous inspirational leader...
...Sedgman and McGregor, Australia's brilliant Whiz Kids. Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, lost only once-to the U.S. in 1954. In 1957 both players turned pro. A power hitter with flat-trajectory ground strokes, Hoad is the logical successor to No. 1 Pro Pancho Gonzales. A master scrambler, possessor of the game's best backhand. Rosewall is a frequent winner on the rich pro circuit...
...party settled comfortably in the Queen's most luxurious suites on M deck. For the P.M., in Cabin No. 80 (once occupied by Molotov), were a special seven-foot bed, 24 extra-size ashtrays to catch cigar ashes, a supply of brandy, and a personal radiophone for "scrambler" calls from shore. The departure was held up for 24 hours while a crew repaired damage suffered on the Queen's easterly crossing-"the worst crossing," said her skipper, "that I have made in 37 years...
Cordingley is probably as long off the tee as any collegian in America, outdriving his teammates by 50 yards on the average shot. Graves, kingpin of the New England college linksmen, is much shorter with woods but is a scrambler par excellence. Both he and Cordingley, however, are good iron players who rarely miss a green badly. They will both be three year men, sneaking into the number five and six jobs as Sophomores and working their way to the top as Juniors. A third returning letterman on this year's team is Junior Watty Dickerman, teaming with Don Elbel...
...first World War pension bill fortnight ago, not because he objected to the pension principle as a new policy, but because he disapproved of the size and details of the measure, Congress scrambled to give him a bill of the same kind which he would accept. No. 1 Pension Scrambler in the House was Representative Royal Cleaves Johnson of Aberdeen, S. Dak., chairman of the House Veterans Committee. Congressman Johnson, 47, enlisted in the regular Army in January 1918, won a lieutenant's commission, went to France in July and as an infantry officer...