Word: shots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third period the varsity wasn't in trouble until an elbow-check penalty to Anderson at 14:24. A Yale slap shot from 15 feet went through a tangle of players in front of the goal but luckily found Pratt's stick instead of an opening. With only four seconds remaining in the same penalty, defenseman Mike Graney broke alone out of his own zone, but his shot was stopped by Jones...
...People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones," shot back Reuther. He was ready even on a tropical isle with a press release: "Mr. President, I have spent no time on the sunny beaches of Puerto Rico, nor have I been with you and your big business friends on the golf course, the duck blinds or the quail hunts." George Meany, not the thin-skinned sort, tossed off a variation on an old pun: "I haven't seen any of the habitués of the sunny beaches, or the sons of habitues...
Sabers & Skittles. Five days before Macmillan's arrival, in a speech at the Russian manufacturing town of Tula (firearms and samovars), Khrushchev had opened the battle with what the British called "a shot across Macmillan's bow." He had no intention, said Khrushchev, of budging from his ultimatum to the Western powers to get out of Berlin by May 27. "Some excessively belligerent figures in the West," thundered Khrushchev, "say that should control over the access routes to West Berlin be turned over to the East Germans, they would fight their way through by force of arms. Only...
Lahore Horse Show, a Pakistani photographer climbed a pole to get a better shot of the duke, lost his grip and fell over backward. Said Prince Philip, quite audibly: "I hope to God he breaks his neck...
...twins, the Howes turn businesslike enemies when they meet in competition. "We just don't like each other on the squash court," explains Peggy. A match between the twins usually produces an extraordinary number of "let" calls, because neither moves aside to let the other have a clean shot, if she can help it. "I won't get out of her way, and she won't give me a thing," admits Peggy...