Word: slung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Came four successive victories and then the Elis somewhat outmanned but ready for a last ditch fight. Harvard's main offensive punch in 1941 was Don McNichol, a low-slung bucking back of the Lazzaro type and with a gift for passing. McNichol, in fact, was the only genuine offensive weapon that the team had to offer. In order to produce some semblance of the outside threat which the halfbacks could not provide, canny Dick Harlow devised a series of endaround plays featuring Loren MacKinney. Rugged Defense For McNicol...
With a bone-rattling roar, seven low-slung speedboats charged down Long Island's Jamaica Bay to start the first of three 30-mile heats in the International Gold Cup race. Most eyes were on 45-year-old Bandleader Guy Lombardo, the defending champion, half obscured by his helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have...
Toward the Mountains. Some of the pilgrims are slick city folk. Others are small townspeople with yellow incense bags slung over their shoulders with the characters chao shan ching hsiang-"toward the mountains to present incense...
...simple, he said. The Model T had only 5,000 parts, counting every last nut. Standardize the parts, he said, so that anyone could buy a new carburetor in any one of the thousands of garages which he visualized springing up across the country. The Model T was high-slung, narrow-wheeled and homely. Said Ford: "Customers can have it painted any color they want so long as it's black." He turned...
When he sings, he seems to introduce new notes into the scale. He heaves wash on to remote, high-slung clothes lines; he rushes on stage between the shafts of a cart and asks the audience if they have seen a horse go up the aisle. But there are dreary spells when the book is too much for him, and much drearier spells when he isn't even around...