Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most glaring Crimson weakness, other than a decided slowness in comparison with the B.C. forwards, was its inability to apply the finisher. At 8:30 of the final period, the varsity had a two-man advantage for 45 seconds and still could not get off a telling shot. Although some of this may be attributed to bruising and skillful defensive work by Eagle captain Joe Jangro and the general adeptness of B. C.'s penalty-killing unit, this reflects, nevertheless, mainly on the Crimson's scoring ability...
Gore's 15-minute White House appointment stretched into 45 minutes as President Eisenhower shot questions at the Tennessean. The President bridled once when Albert Gore, carried away, said passionately: "I want my President to call [the Russian] bluff." But for the most part Dwight Eisenhower seemed impressed, asked Gore to submit his proposals in a formal memorandum. Gore did, also talked over his ideas with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and new AEC Chairman John McCone. Under close examination, flaws might appear in Albert Gore's plan, but at least it had the merit of suggesting...
...letter was similar to that written on Dec. 17, 1941 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt ("To the President of the U.S. in 1956"). F.D.R.'s letter asked consideration of a West Point appointment for the infant son of Air Corps Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr., who was shot down early in the war over the Philippines after a bombing attack on a Japanese warship. Said the White House last week: Colin P. Kelly III, 18, a student at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., has not yet decided whether he will take an appointment, although President Eisenhower is ready to follow...
Asked about the possibility of a two-billion-dollar increase, McElroy shot back: "Oh, no, I don't think that much...
Less U, More H. Co-Author Frank's tear-shot camera eye pans in on Sheilah Graham when she was still Lily Sheil, a grimy Cockney moppet of six being carted away to the East London Home for Orphans. The eight orphanage years were Dickensian. Eventually Lily found a job as a skivy (housemaid) but soon chucked it. She had a chance to demonstrate a U-shaped toothbrush ("It fits the inside of your teeth") and her pearly performance caught the eye of U-born Major John Graham Gillam, D.S.O. It was a case of an 18-year...