Word: self
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Human Needs. Lacking the brittle eloquence and flashiness of some of his colleagues, Rutledge became at once a steady, self-effacing addition to the bright young court, and one of its most fervent champions of civil liberties and economic liberalism. "Of what good is the law," he liked to say, "if it does not serve human needs...
...newest of three Negro regulars now on the Dodger roster, Newcombe is also the hardest of the three to handle. On the road, Catcher Roy Campanella and Second-Baseman Jackie Robinson take turns sharing the big, moody rookie as a roomie. When he is his normal, placid, taciturn self, they needle him up to ballfield pitch. They soothe him when he gets upset and threatens to get out of line...
...Leahy's quarterback is the man about whom the play revolves. Leahy finds that new quarterbacks learn five times as quickly on a basketball court indoors. By wearing sneakers indoors, they have more traction and develop more self-confidence in their ability to spin and cut. At Notre Dame, the gym is also used for pass-catching drills, with passers bouncing footballs off the backboards; it makes Leahy's players more adept at grabbing deflected passes during a game...
...Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran offered to transport any customer free from any point in the U.S., pay for his stay in Chicago until his car was delivered. In Detroit, the McMillan Packard agency distributed self-addressed postcards to its old customers, paid them $20 apiece for every tipoff that led to a sale. It looked as if the shakeout in the one big industry not yet affected by the recession might...
...seemed to be talking about spies. He had moments of luck (trucks that picked him up at just the right moment); he also suffered from blunders-his own and those of the men who had trained him. American phrases had crept into his speech, and his conversation had grown self-conscious and artificial. But he was principally separated from the people around him because he no longer shared their defeat or their hopes, the undercurrent of panic, their confusion, their bitterness, or their dull conviction that the retreat of the German army would be stopped...