Word: swivelling
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...downs to Army's ten. But Army, an old hand at two-platooning, squeaked by, 14-13. Hay in the Barn. Apart from the big four, the only team of any stature left that was still unbeaten was Virginia. In 192-lb. Johnny Papit, Virginia had a powerful, swivel-hipped fullback who was as good as they come (his coach rates him better than the great Bill Dudley, Virginia's wonder boy of nearly a decade ago), but in topflight 1949 football individual stars are as out of style as the scoreless tie and the "60-minute...
Louis Bean must have leaned back in his swivel chair and smiled last Wednesday morning when he read the results of New York's senatorial election. By giving Herbert Lehman a 200,000-vote majority, the electorate helped further to substantiate Bean's remarkable theory, which last year predicted Truman's victory and now calls for a Democratic landslide...
...morning last week residents of Malvern, Ark. (pop. 5,290) were startled out of their swivel chairs and veranda rockers by the unaccustomed blaring of a sound jeep rolling down Main Street. Right behind came a caravan of 30 bright orange school buses and eight heavily loaded trucks and trailers. Posters plastered on the buses said: Watch Arkansas Climb the Ladder of Education...
...Climax. Dead in the center of the battery of defending lawyers, he sat last week. So that he could make speeches, a right denied to a mere defendant, he had elected to be his own lawyer. He lounged in a red leather swivel chair, made a business of taking notes, glowered at Federal Judge Harold Medina, scowled at the back of the neck of U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, stared at the Government witnesses, two FBI agents, who took the stand to add their testimony to the mounting evidence...
...same order in which methodical Mackenzie King had kept it over the years. A picture of Harry Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet on the worn, carpeted footstool inherited from his predecessor and friend, Sir Wilfrid Laurier...