Word: slot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defense was not always pointer's forte. during his career at Andover-covering a four season span-he moved from a fourth line forward slot up to first team and captaincy before graduation. As a member of the Yale freshman squad last year he was a first string defenseman-and by indication this early in the season has learned his hockey lessons well...
...made a deal. Adhemar agreed to withdraw from the race and back Vargas. Vargas agreed to 1) accept a member of Adhemar's party, the social Progressive Party, as his vice-presidential running mate, and 2) support Adhemar in the 1955 presidential election. For the Vice President slot, Vargas foxily insisted on Café Filho, a nominal P.S.P. member. He reasoned that his old enemy would be less troublesome to him as a boxed-in Vice President than as a freewheeling Deputy...
Bobby began his career as a guard, but before long he was calling signals from the tailback slot in Highland Park's single wing. Day after day, when the rest of the squad had finished practice, the two boys would work at place-kicking-Bobby holding, Doak booting-until it was too dark to see the goal posts. After the football season, Bobby played basketball; one spring he pitched the local American Legion baseball team to the state championship. By the time he entered the University of Texas in 1944, he was good enough for a baseball scholarship...
...Paschal lost to Dudley Clarke of the Harvard Club, three to two, in the third slot for the Crimson's only defeat. In the four and five positions, Bob Brown and Batts Wheeler both...
Last summer, Chicago's Arnold Johnson, a vending-machine tycoon, thought he could simply put $3,375,000 in the slot and get himself a ball team. Millionaire Johnson happened to own the stadium of the minor league Kansas City Blues, the town's only big ballpark (he is also part owner of New York's Yankee Stadium). The nearest major-league town, St. Louis, was more than 250 miles away, he argued, and Kansas City was full of potential fans. Even the A's Connie Mack, 91, Grand Old Man of Baseball, agreed that...