Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excellent": Boys Town's famed Father Edward J. Flanagan; in a hospital in Rochester, Minn., after an operation on his spine...
...ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year, he rewrote the script by holding off the Admiral's bid until the homestretch, then, in a spine-tingling stretch duel, reached the wire close on the Admiral's heels...
...Secretary Henry L. Stimson was kinder, but no less firm. "Has my good friend Arthur Krock been sending shivers down your spine?" he asked reporters at his press conference. "There is no plan in the War Department to use military correspondents to replace civilians. There are now more than 230 civilian correspondents in the war theaters and they are doing a splendid...
...those who do get to football games this fall, there should be good wartime diversion. In the East, Fordham, Penn and Boston College should produce spine-tinglers. In the West, the University of California is favored to win the Pacific Coast Conference title for the first time in five years. In the South, all eyes are on the Georgia Bulldogs and Frank Sinkwich, speedy bonecrusher who made 15 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. In the Southwest, any one of a half-dozen teams might come out on top, but preseason dope favors Texas University and Texas...
Saturday's 6-5 victory over the Portsmouth artillery team, with Moe Berg winning his third in a row in extra innings, was an old time spine-tingler. Duckie Drake broke up the ball game in the tenth when, with one away and Jim Gallagher leading off first, he came through with the game's longest blow, a triple over the left fielder's head...