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...primary task is to teach the fundamentals and finer points of end play to the Crimson's "exterior linemen." That, though, is merely the beginning of his responsibilities. Maras has a strategic, as well as a tactical, role: at numerous meetings throughout the week, he and the other coaches thrash out the problem of the team, sketching the outlines and--as the week progresses--the details of the game plan to be used against Saturday's opponent...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Ends, and Other Means | 11/12/1952 | See Source »

...dozen speech drafts with his advisers before he was satisfied. He tried to get to bed by 10:30 or 11, but his aides were getting used to having him knock on their doors at 2 a.m. when he had just thought of something that he wanted to thrash out at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ike in the West | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...covered the distance in 4 min. 36.2 sec., nearly five seconds under the Olympic record. Only three swimmers have ever beaten Wayne's time: Japan's Hironoshin Furuhashi, Australia's Marshall and Ohio's Konno, who surprised most tryout watchers last week by having to thrash desperately to squeeze out his third place and Olympic berth behind Moore and McLane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out of the Backwash | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...plunge. Their eyes quickly fell on the coonskin cap of Senator Estes Kefauver, already in the New Hampshire race. A lively theory evolved: worried regular Democratic leaders had convinced Truman that it is time to muffle the formidable Kefauver boom; he decided that New Hampshire is the place to thrash bold Estes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: A Plunge into Eyewash | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...last week: "I'm sincerely opposed to Dwight's running. I question whether Christ himself could do the job that has to be done. People are looking for miracles, and I'd hate to see Dwight get in a wringer. He could swing his arms and thrash the water, but if Congress wasn't with him, then he'd be sunk ... I don't want him crucified. I'm sorry the country feels that there's only one man among all the citizenry who can . restore it to its position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sorrowful Brother | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

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