Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson is a slim favorite here--assuming, as always, that it has had sufficient time to shake off the trauma incurred in two losses immediately prior to the exam period. The first of these was an 11-1 shellacking at the hands of a brilliant squad of professional amateurs from the Soviet Union; the second, an unexpected humiliation before lowly Providence College...
...never before, the President himself is coming under personal attack within the family. Said one angry family critic last week: "He's not so much indolent as he is tired and immobile. He has lapsed into almost total unwillingness to shake into the kind of action this bunch wants...
Immediate cause of this coordinated shake-up was a portentous rumor that began to buzz through Europe's chancelleries as 1958 waned. To celebrate the inauguration of the Common Market, so the story ran, West Germany planned to make the Deutsche Mark freely convertible currency-a move that might well transfer the banking capital of Europe from London to Bonn...
...filter boom caused the greatest shake-up in the standings of cigarette companies since 1927-30, when American Tobacco's George Washington Hill doubled Lucky Strike sales and bumped R. J. Reynolds' Camel from its traditional hold on the No. 1 spot. In 1958 the story was different. Thanks to their bestselling filters, Reynolds' Chairman John Clarke Whitaker, 67, and President Bowman Gray, 51, dethroned American Tobacco as the No. 1 company for the first time since 1941. Reynolds captured 28.2% of the market v. 26.1% for American...
...U.C.L.A.; 6 ft. 1 in., 210 lbs. Senior. Major: business education. Considered a "real sleeper" by pro scouts, lost chance for many All-Americas because of eligibility restrictions that allowed him to play in only five games. Likes to grin at opponents at game's start, offer to shake hands, saying: "Let's be civilized while we can, shall we?" May forgo pro football for career in movies...