Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since this was the first meet of the season for the varsity, coach Bob Pickett moved all his men up a weight classification, rather than force them to shed poundage this early in the season. Tom Myers and Dave Skeels produced the big points for the varsity, each registering five. Myers, a senior normally in the 115-pound class, non-existent in college wrestling, scored his five points on a default, when Dartmouth was unable to put an entrant on the mat in the 123-pound class...
Coach Bob Pickett intends to move all his wrestlers up a notch for this match rather than force them to shed poundage this early in the season...
...reflecting devices that make them look bigger than they are. Such a decoy is hard to distinguish from a real bomber, and an attacking interceptor or missile is apt to "lock onto" it and let the bomber escape. Nature thought of this trick long before man did. Many lizards shed their tails when they are hotly pursued. The pursuer captures only the tail; the rest of the lizard escapes and grows another tail...
...lace sheath and a blazing diamond necklace. She sang the final aria from Donizetti's Anna Bolena, in which the wronged queen, about to be beheaded, forgives all her enemies. At the last exultant phrase ("Only my blood is lacking to finish the crime, and this will be shed!"), Callas took a single step forward-so dramatic that people all but jumped. She raised a commanding hand over her head, then threw her arms wide and sent that last full note straight up through the roof...
Back in office as lord mayor, beefy Max Brauer, 70, was quick to point out that the Hamburg Socialists had succeeded where the national party had failed, because of his moderate, down-to-earth and pro-Western brand of Socialism. "The Social Democrats in Hamburg," he said, "have shed the outworn dogma about being a party solely of workers ... The most important task we have is to set the example for a great people's party drawn from all classes . . . and to shape these new times...