Word: steers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning to his duties as Jayvee coach after having been home sick all week, Henry Lamer takes back the reins just in time to steer his boys against an undefeated Brown eleven at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Hailed as a miracle man, Brown was drafted by Ohio State fans to heal their University's sickly football prestige. In unheard-of generosity, Ohio high-school coaches formally petitioned Ohio State's athletic board to try their 32-year-old colleague, promised to steer the cream of their football crops to the University if it did. But to jump from scholastic football into the Big Ten requires the courage of a Commando. Pedantic Paul Brown...
...Leon Henderson, the War Labor Board's William H. Davis and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. Byrnes's job is to listen to the arguments among his committee members (who have seldom seen eye to eye in the past), iron out conflicts, set policies, steer for a united front against inflation...
...characters are dangerously ordinary people, a farmer and his wife, their eldest son, his girl, a soldier from Brooklyn, an intellectual, etc. But Anderson's writing and the cast's understanding acting lift the play from the slough of folksy despond. Together they delicately steer the farmer's son through his promised year of military training and an unconsummated love affair, to a hero's death on Bataan without once approaching the level on which Hollywood would treat such a story. This story, after all, is very close to us. Raised during the twenty years of peace and pacifism...
Broad Grant. Bald, faithful Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rushed back from a vacation on his Texas ranch to steer some kind of measure quickly through the House, soon sensed Congress' temper. He and the House majority leader, tall, toothy John W. McCormack of Massachusetts, huddled with the President, made their plans...