Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite 10 returning lettermen, Combes finds himself in somewhat of a spot, since the first-string Whiz Kids allowed other members of the squad little time to work as a unit. In addition to the six-feet, seven-inch center Green, Combes is building his team around captain-guard Jack Burmaster, an excellent playmaker, and Dwight "Dike" Eddleman, the famed all-around star of three sports, football, basketball, and track...
...race sailing series found the Harvard crews one point ahead of Yale and in fourth spot in the nine team regatta. George Washington University won the series, with M.I.T. second and Brown third, seven points in front of the Crimson...
...odds & ends of G.I. clothing. A young man with a red face, an Army combat jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down in the excavation...
...third round, people were beginning to wonder what was the matter with Joe Louis. He kept shuffling forward, a bald spot visible on the crown of his 33-year-old head, stalking his man as he always did-careful, tense, relentless. But whenever Big Joe got set, Jersey Joe danced nimbly out of range. He bobbed and weaved, dropped his guard, ambled to the left, then the right, jiggled his feet, turned southpaw at times. He backed up-but not into the ropes: he had too much ring smartness for that. Louis, always moving forward, looked like the aggressor...
...sung the role. Toscanini snapped: "Good. I'll teach you myself." He drilled the Metropolitan's brilliant new baritone, Giuseppe Valdengo (a graduate of the New York City Opera Co.), for two hours on the proper way to sing just two words-"non so"-at a crucial spot in the play...