Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disciplined life had its lighter moments. Lyman, the daring one, taught younger brother Ernest (now with a building-construction firm in Hackensack, N.J.) how to swim, shook the town each July 4 with blasts from his is-inch-long toy cannon, set off a homemade bomb in the stone quarry, practiced his rifle marksmanship (he later became one of the Army's best) in the attic on rainy days with a .22. One winter, while crust riding downhill on his sled, he lost control, rammed head first into a stone wall. Unshaken, he would have gone calmly back...
...Clean Sleeve. A slight, hollow-eyed boy, he heeded the advice of older brother Coe (who died in 1917), managed to win an appointment to West Point. Two Honesdale teachers helped him cram for six weeks to get a head start, but the Point was like hitting another stone wall. Blunt-spoken upperclassmen advised him to give up, and it soon became apparent that he would always be a "clean-sleeve" cadet, without visible marks for leadership, scholarship or athletics. Once he made the baseball team wearing the catcher's "tools of ignorance," but that ended when he tore...
Starting at attack will be Dave Bohn, Jerry Pyle, and Nick Lamont, with Andy Leaf alternating throughout the game. Chris Stone will be in the nets...
Dave Bohn, Nick Lamont, and Jerry Pyle will start the game at attack, while Tim Morgan, Dick Parks and Lanny Keyes will start at midfield. The first defensive unit includes Ed Tarlov, Bron Thayer, and Keyes, with Chris Stone in the nets...
Mike Adair, who has been a substitute most of the season, turned in his best performance of the year. In the mid-field, Dave Burch, Tadgh Sweeney, and Charlie Devens also looked quite good. Chris Stone and Nate Howe II struggled valiantly at goalie but were inundated with shots...