Word: soso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago - thus ushering in the yé-yé look and youth cult that nearly blew haute couture as well as skirts sky-high - there was news aplenty last week from the big high-fashion houses of Paris. Out to prove that yé-yé is only soso, 36 top designers presented new collections for spring and summer, striking out in all sorts of new directions...
...Tennessee's Dewey Warren, 21, and Johnny Mills, 21, have had only a soso, 3-2 season-on the Scoreboard. Which was to be expected, since their school scheduled Georgia Tech (No. 6 ranked) and Alabama (No. 4) back to back. The Vols lost both games by a total of four points. Neither loss was the fault of Quarterback Warren, who has hit on 61 out of 99 passes for a completion percentage of 62%-or of Split End Mills, who has caught...
...general novel by Nabokov: soso...
...hint of things to come. The folks who run the Cotton Bowl at Dallas were more than a bit embarrassed when the best team they could find to oppose No. 2-ranked Arkansas, the winningest (22 straight) club in college football, was Louisiana State, which had struggled through a soso, seven-and-three season. Oddsmakers made Arkansas a nine-point favorite. They counted without a pint-sized (5 ft. 9 in., 164 lbs.) tailback from Cut Off, La., named Joe Labruzzo. Twice, deep in Arkansas territory, Labruzzo carried the ball on four straight plays. On both occasions he scored...
...Shame." Two months ago Snell ran a half-mile in Honolulu, then a mile in Los Angeles. He won both races, but his time for the half-mile (1 min. 53.8 sec.) was only soso. He ran an 880-yd. race against Canada's Bill Crothers in Toronto. On the last turn, Snell pulled his usual ploy, turned on a great burst of speed for the final sprint, but Crothers hung on, passed him 40 yds. from the tape. "My legs felt dead," complained Snell...