Word: strongest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps the strongest bastion against destruction of the Southern public school system is the peculiar moderation of many politicians such as Faubus. It is the moderation of inertia and short-sightedness. Even as they failed to make the schools equal, in order to keep them separate, so they now will probably fail to follow their rhetoric to its logical consequences...
Munro, however, is not overly discouraged. "I expect the line to score more this year even though we have lost our two top scorers, Jim Shue and Tom Bernheim. Our defense," he added, "is our strongest point, but on the other hand, the halfbacks may be our weak link...
...will open the season in goal unless his injured leg keeps him out of action. If Bagnoli cannot start, Munro plans to use Bob Forbush, a sophomore who has looked very good in practice this year. As Munro himself commented, the goal should be one of the team's strongest positions...
...justified his stand by recalling the follies of appeasement and stated that there would be no repeat of Munich in the present crisis. But the coastal islands three miles off the mainland cannot be compared in strategic or moral importance to what in 1938 was the most democratic and strongest free nation in Central Europe. Military experts have testified that Matsu and besieged Quemoy are not important to the defense of Formosa, which lies about 100 miles further east. They possess significant military value only as offensive bridgeheads...
...defense in general; the number of would-be tacklers slithering off the ball-carrier or making futile grabs at the runner's legs, often a recurrent phenomenon in early autumn play, was surprisingly low. At least through its first two teams, the Crimson may well have one of the strongest lines in the Ivy League...