Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nikita Khrushchev's favorite pastime is shooting for sport. The boss of the Soviet Communist Party owns a luxurious collection of shotguns and rifles, and he likes to slip quietly out of Moscow to the water meadows of the Ukraine to bag a string of ducks. Last week Nikita Khrushchev traveled all the way to Yugoslavia to indulge his hobby in one of Europe's more exclusive hunting grounds: the vast domain at Belje, once a sporting ground of the Habsburg princes, now a model "socialist farm" and preserve of Marshal Tito and his cronies. In a happy...
Proper Admiration. But the string of superb victories looked to some Britons of Marlborough's day like an endless series of bloody shambles. Good Queen Anne began to cry aloud, "Oh, Lord, when will all this dreadful bloodshed cease?" Sarah, fighting desperately to keep the Queen under her thumb, only succeeded in losing Anne's affections. The Churchills' many enemies closed in-and with a crash like falling idols, both Sarah and John were thrust from their offices. But, by then, they were millionaires...
...second string halfbacks figure to include Al Hoyt and Harry Wexler, but Munro is still uncertain...
...team's greatest depth is in the goal, where Elliott Finkelstein is first string, but not too far ahead of Jim Perkins and Arnie Singal. Finkelstein is not a showy net-minder, but has exceptional anticipation and a sure pair of hands, and may well be the outstanding goalie in the Ivy League this year...
...might be the final word on giveaways comes from TV comedy Writer-Director Nat (Phil Silvers Show) Hiken, who whimsically suggests a show called A Million or Your Life'. "The contestant will stand in front of the TV camera and face two gun barrels. He will have a string leading to the triggers on the two barrels. One will be loaded with a dud containing a check for $1,000,000-the other with a live 37mm. shell guaranteed to tear his head off. If he pulls the wrong string-kaputt...