Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would gradually turn Egypt toward parliamentary rule. The timetable: in June, the election of a 250-man Constituent Assembly; in July, an Assembly meeting to ratify a new constitution; by January 1956, free elections for a new democratic Parliament. The R.C.C. said it will then fade away. As a starter, news censorship was lifted...
Chances for that win are slim, however, for both Dick Manning and Captain Ed Krinsky have suffered ankle injuries. Manning is definitely not ready, and sophomore Bob Bowman will take his place at center; Krimsky is still a possible starter. If the guard has to be replaced, Coach Norm Shepard will use either Roger Bulger or Rollin Perry. Harry Sacks and Bill Dennis will open at the forwards...
...year-old cocker spaniel, Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine, owned by Mrs. Carl E. Morgan, became the first of his breed since famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. ¶ New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student, ran the distance...
...making only his third start on an indoor track and had never seen the Garden's before. He stood respectfully for The Star-Spangled Banner, then straightened a bit more as the band struggled through the Luxembourg national anthem, Ons Hémecht (Our Homeland). At the starter's gun, medium-built (5 ft. 9 in., 155 Ibs.) Barthel was off with the pack, running smoothly and easily with his short-legged stride...
With that as a starter, Judge Härringer really got busy. He helped the boys turn an abandoned theater into a civic center, hired professional musicians to play for them, asked local authors to give talks on the world's great literature, brought in actors to put on comedy skits. The judge haunted welfare groups, asking them to help him rustle up food and clothing. "There's no question," said one official, "that Härringer is the most gifted beggar in town." Said the judge with a smile: "We have to do the giving before...