Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perjury: Harvey Marshall Matusow, former paid Communist functionary (1947-50) and paid anti-Communist informer (1950-54), who once observed: "I don't even trust myself." Matusow had testified that an Assistant U.S. Attorney had coached him to testify falsely at the 1952 trials of 13 second-string Communist leaders. "He didn't lie to protect himself," summed up U.S. Attorney Paul W. Williams. "He lied to implicate others, to destroy our judicial system and to discredit persons and Government agencies fighting the Communist menace." The sentence: five years...
...team trainer gets a workout helping padded giants collect their wits or their wind after a particularly savage block. Practice, after all, cannot be stopped just because a first-string tackle has staggered out of the huddle, rag-doll limp, his eyes rolling in his head. Says Rose Bowl Hero Kaiser: "You see a guy out in a canoe on Red Cedar River with his girl and a blanket and you wonder what you're doing it for. But other times you get out there feeling good and you just plain want to butt heads...
Died. Madison Alexander Cooper Jr., 63, Waco (Texas) bachelor who managed his family's real-estate fortune, courted "a string of widows," in his spare time turned out (1952) the lusty, lengthy (two volumes, 1,731 pp., 840,000 words) novel, Sironia, Texas, which told in raw, unselective detail everything that happened in 20 years to some 30 major characters; of a heart attack in his auto after completing his thrice-weekly, mile-long jog around the Municipal Stadium track; in Waco, Texas...
...Peterborough who would need cars? Students would use horses in the summer, sleighs in the winter, and anyhow there are no roads. Why worry about building new houses in Peterborough? A few poles, some canvas, and a piece of string would provide students with a "Do it yourself house kit." In addition, the entire question of emergency evacuation would be removed...
Princeton scored almost at will before substituting its third string in rolling up an impressive 28-6 win over Rutgers. The Tigers held Rutgers within its own thirty yard line for the entire first three periods...