Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial marker came when Tufts recovered a Crimson fumble and scored in five plays. A minute after the Tufts' kickoff Harvard fumbled again on the 35-yard stripe, and Tufts acknowledegd the gift by crossing the goal in eight more plays. The conversion was good...
...governors typified the dilemma in which Orval Faubus had placed the South. Only one, Georgia's Marvin Griffin, was a rabble-rouser of the Faubus stripe. The four others, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Tennessee's Frank Clement, North Carolina's Luther Hodges and Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, were moderates. But the emotional turmoil of the South had forced Collins, Clement and Hodges toward the side of Demagogue Faubus, even though most of them privately blamed him for the trouble. In Washington, they hoped to find a way to get federal troops out of Little...
...friend's widow. And last week there was Beck's heir apparent, Teamsters' Central Conference Boss Jimmy Hoffa, who was unable to "recollect" teaming with a union-busting racketeer to defeat the work of his own union. Beck, Hoffa and dozens of similar stripe were precious poor exhibits for Peter McGuire's better age and more chivalrous time...
Pulling itself together, the four-officer court-martial amiably socked friendly Airman Wheeler with a $200 pay loss, a one-stripe demotion and four months in the stockade...
...Administration was trying to get appropriations out of Congress, the cold front clashed with the warm winds of modern Republicanism. Principal orphans of the storm were the Eisenhower Republicans in Cabinet, House and Senate. The principal happy onlookers, snug and comfortable in Taftite redoubts, were G.O.P. conservatives of the stripe of California's William Fife Knowland and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, whose case had been better sold by Humphrey than ever before...