Word: starter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief moment at the opening of the second period Williams sneaked back into the game when Nichols on a low shot beat Steve O'Nell, who had replaced starter Ab Fenn in the Crimson sets. Just 46 seconds later Gebelein struck back on a pretty play in which Paine received credit for an assist. Beebe and Harding both scored on passes from Everts and Ayres respectively to give the Crimson a 5 to 1 edge before the end of the period...
...Heintz, Inc. of Cleveland, also paid a remarkable bonus last week: $650,000 to 800 employes. J. & H., like Beech, is no ordinary plant. Started a year ago by ex-union business agent William S. Jack, 53, it already has $20,000,000 in Government orders, mostly for aircraft starter assemblies. All employes are called "associates." They punch no time clocks, get monthly bonuses averaging $30, free coffee, jazz music four hours daily, free hamburgers every Wednesday, will soon get free grub from a company cafeteria...
...stone wall. One nervous twitch of a Japanese trigger finger, one jump in any direction, one overt act, might be enough. A vast array of armies, of navies, of air fleets were stretched now in the position of track runners, in the tension of the moment before the starter...
...barrel-chested ex-bartender who knows that there is more than one use for a bung-starter. A New Jersey Governor once described him as "one of the real forces in American life." Mr. Fay's forcefulness became a matter of interest to a grand jury in Syracuse...
With a fast starter like Maznicki, this style of play may have been advisable--but it raises a corking rhetorical question for the Monday morning quarterbacks. Wouldn't it have been a great Crimson team this fall if Dick Harlow had possessed one full-speed back like Murphy, Grigas, or Maznicki? The chances are that one of those boys would have been quite effective on the business end of a mysterious double reverse or a sizzling veer buck...