Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stability & Peace. Though Russia had attempted to snuff out these gains by clamping down on Berlin, "the Soviet planners," said Clay, "failed to recognize our strength in the air . . . The airlift to Berlin is not a makeshift operation. It is a well organized, efficient and precisely timed operation which can provide the minimum essentials for the people of Berlin indefinitely . . . Our airmen . . . have not wavered in bad weather; nor in the face of contemptible threats...
...next race, Al said: "I'd feel more confident if we'd dropped one of them. By the law of averages it's just impossible to sweep all three races." Furthermore, Ulbrickson had lately observed that his varsity oarsmen hadn't been rowing up to snuff. He didn't like that either...
With last week's good news, Secretary Symington added a word of warning: all contracts will be given a searching review in September and again in December. They may be revised if production isn't up to snuff, or if better ships are developed faster than expected...
...competitive spirit, intensified by national rivalries. There was a deeper and grimmer game afoot: for some "iron cur tain" countries, like Rumania and Yugoslavia, competition had become almost a matter of life & death; some athletes were nervous about going back home if they didn't perform up to snuff. Soviet Russia sent no competitors, only a vigilante squad of ten observers...
...sturdy spinning fullback, started most of Michigan's backfield ballet and ball-handling hocuspocus, and chewed through the center of Southern Cal's bewildered line for three Michigan touchdowns. Trigger Man Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), who admitted later that he wasn't quite up to snuff, completed only 14 of 24 passes (two for touchdowns), passed and ran the ball 279 yards for a new Rose Bowl record. When the gun ended it all, Michigan had won by the same score* (49 to 0, the biggest in Rose Bowl history) by which...