Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manager Marv Jenson saw the scrap with more cautious clarity. Across the ring he saw the lithe and light-foot memory of a great champion, the dark and dangerous shadow of a man who had once been the finest fist fighter of his generation. And Jenson worried lest Sugar Ray, at 36, reach back across the years for one of those wickedly coordinated punches that could end a fight in an instant. "Just keep going the way you have," he told his boy. "Be careful. Don't open...
...Game," the almost always spirited Army-Navy scrap for the service championship, was a big bust. Army fumbled away chances to run up a score; Navy scuttled its own attack while its sloppy defense did little more than watch the soldiers stop themselves. The game ended, as it should have, in a 7-7 tie, and then, as it should have, the Naval Academy refused an invitation to the Cotton Bowl...
From the dinky little salvage vessel Daiei Maru (a misnomer, for it means Great Prosperity), Oyama plunged into Nagasaki Bay in hopes of salvaging enough scrap iron to make it worth the effort and risk. Four times he went down 192 ft. with nothing untoward. Raised to the Daiei Maru's deck after his fifth, hour-long descent, he collapsed in pain. His shipmates, unversed in medicine but with a well-grounded fear of the bends, slapped Oyama's helmet back on him, stuffed his diving suit with lead weights, and dumped him back over the side-down...
...company to compete in foreign markets? Answered the U.S. Supreme Court last week: it can indeed. By a 4-to-4 tie vote (Justice Harlan disqualified himself from the case), the court let stand a lower-court ruling that Holophane Co., maker of prismatic glassware, must not only scrap all agreements with foreign companies to split up world markets but actively push its products overseas regardless of foreign laws or its own economic best interest. Snapped Justice Hugo Black, incredulously, during the hearing: "Is what you are saying this: that a distiller must go out and do everything...
...Best Defense. In Cleveland, on the day he was supposed to testify at his trial on charges of robbing a grocery, Robert E. Crawford was arrested, charged with stealing three tons of scrap metal from a transit-system yard...