Word: skipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the tide to the service academies had turned. When their civilian schools had whistled, the big names at Annapolis had run obediently back-Bob Kelly (to Notre Dame), Skip Minisi (to Penn). But Army was tougher. When Mississippi State whistled, Shorty McWilliams couldn't untangle himself from West Point red tape. Outraged Mississippians howled that their hero was being held a "football prisoner." Promptly West Point's Superintendent, Major General Maxwell D. Taylor (known as "Mr. Attack" when he commanded the famed 101st Airborne Division), sounded...
...trends, included Bob Neyland, head coach of the Tennessee Vols; Jack Harding, who directed the Miami University eleven, Orange Bowl champions last fall; and two former Harlow players--now coaches--who learned their football when Dick tutored the Western Maryland club. They were Al Sadusky, now line coach under Skip Stahley at George Washington University, and George Ekaitis, who coaches the Washington College, Md., squad...
Like other rough mysteries, war is something the wits of The Little Group would prefer to skim or skip. When it comes, some of them foam with the "war hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than...
Though she believed in enthusiastic unbottling of religious emotions, Matriarch White was always stern with pentecostal excesses. "Sometimes our people get happy and skip around a bit," she said, "but . . . we don't have any catalepsy or epilepsy." When some of her southern followers once essayed a bit of holy rolling, Bishop White merely said, "You get right up or I'll stick a pin in you." It worked...
Grace Moore, bubbly blonde operatic soprano, was back from a European tour. Laryngitis had forced her to skip a concert at London's Albert Hall, and she had a fine prima-donna tribute for the audience. "The audience was simply marvelous," she said, "accepting my apologies and listening instead to Marjorie Lawrence...