Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson will put less than 20 men into uniform for the game, because it depends mainly on the endurance of its first string. Tony Davies, an imported left fullback from Ireland is the mainstay of the defense. His powerful kicking often broke up threatening situations in the M.I.T. encounter last week. Gil Leaf, the left wing, scored the single goal that gave the Crimson that game...
...compensate for Jerbasi's absence, Penn coach Charles Scott moved left fullback Charley Kalme to center halfback, where he did an adequate job. Regular left half Bob Trigg filled in for Kalme at fullback, and right inside Davey Buten switched to left halfback. Fred Mansouri was elevated to first-string inside...
Star-Crossed. In Philadelphia, fired from his city job for a long string of absences and tardiness, J. Howard Johnson appealed to the local Civil Service Commission for his early reinstatement as law-enforcement clerk, explained that he was born under the astrological sign of Sagittarius, which makes him too restless to stay put in one spot for more than a few hours at a time...
...worse than it actually was in contrast with the subsequent showmanship of Senator John F. Kennedy, a seasoned campaigner who sensed his audience's aching desire for brevity and a spark of humanity. Democrat Kennedy supplied it by throwing away most of his text, giving Republican Rockefeller a string of verbal hotfoots, then swiftly wrapping up Rocky's own point: the U.S. needs leadership to "tell the people the hard facts of existence that face us." All told, the deceptively boyish Kennedy drew ten rounds of applause in nine minutes, a rout which lent poignant irony to Rocky...
Even more than most windups of multiple novels, The Mansion ties up so many loose ends that the string can sometimes hardly be seen for the knots. For a good deal of the way, The Mansion recapitulates the first two books. Flem's dirty deals,Wife Eula's electric sexiness, Daughter Linda's womanly inheritance from her mother, nice Lawyer Stevens' frustrated hankering for them both-none of these can easily be appreciated without some help from The Hamlet and The Town...