Word: short
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Test. Brown has tremendous power, is also the fastest man on the team. The combination is devastating. Most fullbacks are short-yardage power specialists, but Jimmy has roared off on touchdown gallops of 23, 38, 41. 48, 59 and 62 yards this season. He explodes from a standing start at top speed, follows his interference to the line of scrimmage, then picks a hole and takes off, running over everything...
...little they could do about the revolt against chrome-and the demand for a small car. Last week General Motors and Ford were experimenting with a radical new electronic machine to make dies that would drastically cut the lead time, make it possible to turn out dies in as short a time as six months...
...Than the saucy, soft, short shirts...
...shouldering. The Pope's doctor, Paolo Venchierutti, has announced that the somewhat overweight Pontiff (205 Ibs.) "has a robust stamina unweakened by the years." He generally sleeps no more than six hours a night-retiring at 10 and rising at 4. But however strong his body and short his sleep, the problems that confront his reign are a formidable legacy...
...would appreciate eccentricity. She chartered a locomotive for a picnic, led a lion on a leash, drank beer at "pop" concerts, and once, during Lent, donned sackcloth and scrubbed the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world's best pictures (among them Titian's Rape of Europa...