Word: spec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before a Yankee nailed him. On the 27-yard line, the Yankees held. The Dodgers tried another field goal, but the Yankees blocked it. From then on, Rickey got the kind of speed he liked to see-but it was all done by the rival Yankees, in particular by Spec Sanders, Negro Buddy Young, and a Negro rookie named Tom Casey. Casey raced 94 yards to a touchdown, coolly pointing out to his blockers, a threatening Dodger safety man halfway down the field. Final score: Yankees 21, Dodgers...
Unlike Georgia's tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Spec Towns, who won the no-meters high hurdles in Berlin in 1936, Bones drives hard into a hurdle. Towns used to float over them. A notoriously slow beginner, Towns seldom got into the race until he reached the third hurdle. Dillard believes that the first seven strides (before taking the first hurdle in the 120 highs) are all-important. Says he: "They say I am unorthodox. But I figure any form that gets you there fastest is orthodox form...
...Yankees, as usual, relied on their Mutt & Jeff combination. The little man was swift, 5 ft. 5 Buddy Young, star Negro halfback of last year's University of Illinois team, who has kept enemy defenses loose and wide all season. With him as a decoy, big Spec Sanders, whose shoulder is higher than the top of Buddy's head, found it easier to rip inside tackle for big gains. Sanders, who didn't make the first team at the University of Texas, has gained more yards this year-1,384-than any other back in pro football...
...tone of the day's activities with a brisk "Good morning, slaves," to her staff, sweeps into her office, climbs into more comfortable shoes, and settles down to the morning mail and the notes prepared by her legman, a University of North Carolina Phi Bete named David ("Spec") McClure...
...secretary, Treva Davidson, and begins to dictate. It takes her about an hour and a half to do 800 words. Sometimes she does two or three columns in a day. Two or three days a week she takes off for the studios. If it is a personal interview, Spec goes along. Hedda does the talking; Spec takes the notes. Evenings, she is hard at work too-at some of the 50 parties a week she is invited...