Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of the lineup will be the same crew that stared against Holy Cross last Saturday. Rabbit-running Paul Lazsaro whose 30-yard slice through the middle of the Crussder line set up the game's only touchdown, will probably start at full, although Wally Flynn will get plenty of opportunity to test the Big Green line. The Crimson high command breathed easier last night after it was reported that Chuck Goodrich would be ready to back up the Varsity forward wall today. Last week, Goodrich made considerably more than his share of the tackles...
Chuck Luckman nevertheless stuck to his guns. Out of his volunteer headquarters, which had spread down one side of an entire corridor in the old State Department building, his aides pumped out a steady stream of suggestions, advice, recipes, and bales of statistics (one slice of bread saved per person each day means seven million 1-lb. loaves a day for Europe). He flatly turned down any idea of legal controls...
This sounded like a slightly more politic parroting of Senator Bob Taft. Did the President, like Taft, mean "eat less"? asked one reporter. No, said the President firmly, he meant to waste less. One restaurant owner had informed him that one slice of bread less per person would solve the wheat shortage. If people would save the bread they now throw away, he said, 70 million bushels of wheat could be saved without depriving anyone...
...radio address Truman also asked every family to "save a slice of bread every day," and public eating places to "serve bread and butter only by request." This demand will suggest to the Council the reestablishment of the voluntary rationing program of the spring and summer...
...back up his winning attitude, Big Jake has a winning service. He hits three types of serve-flat, slice, high-bounce-each with equal skill and confidence. His service never sizzles over the net with the brute force of Bob Falkenburg's cannonball smashes, but players agree that Kramer's is harder to handle, and he gets his share of service aces...