Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other Saturday afternoons this fall DeGraaf may not be able to get away with this stratagem. He certainly failed against Colgate nine days ago, losing 21 to 6. But Saturday both DeGraaf and Jackson were superb, and the blocking of a big left end named Stan Intihar was more than most coaches hope...
...Turnpike would have startled U.S. motorists with a big switch: fast cars in the outside right lane and slow traffic in the left lanes, and service facilities on the center strip rather than the roadsides. The commission turned down these innovations. As built, the turnpike is simply an ordinary, superb superhighway...
...still saving his veteran pitchers while Alston was forced to work his best. They were more than good enough. Carl Erskine lasted only three innings, but Don Bessent and Clem Labine teamed up behind him to hold the Yankees off. Snider, Campanella and Hodges all homered, and Snider was superb in the field. The Yanks got scant consolation from McDougald's wasted first-inning home run. Final score: Dodgers 8, Yankees...
...like any game, has its rationale. Most girls are tremendously relieved and deeply offended when you finally close in. Your girl friend's response, if she still approves of you, will be to express both feelings in a superb six-or-eight-word sentence, and let you go ahead. After all the rationalizations are on the table, the only really pleasant part of the whole business ensues...
...When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...