Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southern California (8-0)-beat Baylor, 17-8, as its massive line, anchored by End Marlin and Guard Mike McKeever (TIME, Oct. 26), gave up only three yards on the ground...
...pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement. On defense, his jarring, head-on football tackles flattened any opposing player he seemed to suspect of having the ball, having had it, or about to get it, but he let the play get away time and again. Sniffed the Oxford Mail: "The subtleties of positioning have escaped him so far. His tackling was far from classic...
...these shamans of big-time football turn for advice to the coach at a small Eastern college? Answer: Delaware's chess-playing, 39-year-old David Moir Nelson has one of the finest football brains in the business. And, says Dietzel, "he is not selfish in sharing his knowledge with others." In a word, "Admiral" Nelson is the coaches' coach...
...know better than the Opies, a British husband-and-wife team whose previous exegesis of juvenile literature produced the authoritative Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). This time the Opies left the library to listen on school grounds. For eight years they hunted rhymes, rites and riddles among 5,000 children at 70 schools throughout the British Isles. Delighted to teach adults something, children unbuttoned their lips...
...generation every six years; play-yard lingo ought to be highly perishable. Yet the Opies found little girls skipping to "Little fatty doctor, how's your wife?/ Very well, thank you, she's all right," a chant that goes back at least 130 years. Measured in school time, it has had more than 20 generations of wear. Children find it as fresh as ever...