Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...omnipresent state handles most of the nation's banking and insurance, monopolizes coal imports, operates the railroads, the power plants, the telephone system, a huge slaughterhouse, liquor distilleries, oil refineries, fisheries, cement plants, a repertory theater, an ambulance service and a string of low-cost restaurants. This statist structure is costly in both obvious and insidious ways. Uruguay suffers from Latin America's severest case of bureaucratic bloat, with 150,000 civil servants out of a labor force of 1,000,000. Government deficits pile up year after year. And under the state's blanket benevolence, incentive...
...Senior Halfback Tommy McDonald, who runs split T's run-or-pass option play with more skill than any back in the nation, kept the Notre Dame secondary tangle-footed. In the third quarter he set out for right end, was trapped by tacklers, whipped a 49-yard string-straight pass on the dead run. He intercepted two passes, carried one 55 yards along the sideline for a touchdown. Demonstrating in lordly fashion that it could pass if passing were needed, Oklahoma fired five passes, completed four. Final score: Oklahoma 40, Notre Dame 0. It was Oklahoma...
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 2--Harvard's longest extant undefeated string came to an inglorious ending this afternoon as the powerful Yale cross country team edged out the varsity 26 to 29 on a rain-soaked Princeton course. The Crimson did beat their Tiger hosts, however...
Little's team has lost eleven straight, and this could be the afternoon to break that string, for Benham is the leading passer in the Ivy League and Spraker is a good runner and pass receiver...
Cornell, the Crimson's football opponent this coming Saturday, failed to stop Navy in their 14-0 defeat, in the only non-Ivy League encounter over the weekend among the Crimson's 1956 opposition. The strong Navy squad started its second string, yet Cornell failed to threaten once during the contest. Its defense, however, was excellent in spots, and once stopped a 74-yard Middie scoring march on the one yard line...