Word: sneakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yardling Fred Wegner played a fast, snatchy defensive game and proved the sneaker in M.I.T.'s sporadic attempts at an offense. Engineer plays formed and up popped Wegner often with the ball. Jim Gabler was another fly in Tech's offensive ointment. His smooth ball-handling and passing kept Techmen moving fast in the wrong direction...
...vintners of the Palatinate sought (as they do every year) a name to distinguish the 1947 vintage. What to call this year of hunger, hate, uncertainty, and growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing...
...opponents at the same time that, after 45 minutes, they stopped to congratulate him on his virtuosity. His toughest battle was against the old Master, Lord Executor, until he found a fatal weakness to sing about: Executor's big toe had just popped out of his canvas sneaker...
...reeceeeer--Mush!" Everybody suddenly turned on Vag and walked into him. He reversed as soon as he could, but the big guy behind him stepped on his heel and knocked his sneaker off. "Oh, that's all right," said the Vagabond, anticipating an apology, and knelt to put his shoe back on while the rest of his squad fought their way over or around him. The squad was far in the distance when another gang came stumbling over him from the east, and some old guy in boxing gloves threatened to turn him over to the F.B.I...
Though timid cinemaddicts who dislike having boys in the house may be dismayed by a Rugby whose youthful masculinity is as unembellished as an old sneaker, even they will find homely, button-nosed Jimmy Lydon an improvement over the standard Hollywood juvenile. A veteran of WPA drama and radio serials, he was ousted in the finals of Producer David Selznick's hunt for a Tom Sawyer. He and Freddie Bartholomew raced to work in their cars every morning until Lydon bowled over an R. K. O. watchman and Producer Towne threatened to put them both...