Word: star
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the first flames of the new European conflict sputtered to life, he was a brigadier general in the War Plans Division in Washington. On Sept. 1, 1939, the day Hitler smashed into Poland, President Roosevelt jumped Marshall over 34 higher-ranking officers to Chief of Staff and four-star rank, handed him the job of getting an unprepared nation ready for war. Battling divided public opinion and an isolationist Congress, Marshall stubbornly, coldly, turned a sparsely trained Army of about 400,000 into a sharp, hard-fighting, brilliantly organized global weapon that numbered more than...
...victory cannot be far," sang the somber chorus. "The world then becomes a Red star." The tumid cantata swelled across the famed campus; Communist Germany's goat-bearded Party Boss Walter Ulbricht smiled. It was the 550th anniversary of his home-town university, and what he had done to it made him proud. Since 1953, Leipzig University has been called Karl-Marx University, "model of the socialist type of university." Last week Leipzig, which took six centuries to build, was a model of how to kill a great institution in six years...
Left halfback Hobie Armstrong, the Yardlings' own Jim Brown, was the work-horse of the team, making several crucial first downs. Hatch, however, was the star of the day. In the fourth period, with fourth down and 20 yards to go, and the Crimson in punt formation, Hatch was trapped behind the line, but broke away around left end for first down deep in Dartmouth territory...
Crimson ace Jed Fitzgerald showed no signs of the leg injury that kept him from practice this week as he ran a close second to undefeated Dartmouth star Tom Larris...
This year the situation is reversed. The Indians, with only limited service from captain and star signal-caller Bill Gundy and all-Ivy halfback Jake Crouthamel, have been virtually impotent in losing to three strong opponents and tying hapless Brown...