Word: wasn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't certain early in the season that Singleterry was going to have as good a fall as expected. In the B.U. game, the day that a feature written on him by John Powers and entitled "A Punt and a Prayer" appeared in the program, he averaged 31 yards on nine punts...
...Brady says he really wasn't hiding from police." the Globe reported. "He was just waiting for someone to tell the true story behind the garage scandal." Evidently, Brady was the only one who knew exactly what the story was and upon his apprehension in Atlantic City, he expressed relief that he could return to Boston and "get things over with...
...although I had escaped the trees, I wasn't out of the woods. There was still my operatic ignorance to contend with. So, making every effort to summon up my best Jacksonianly Democratic facade, I settled back, confident that the very commonness of my heart would ferret out a couple of passable truths or, at very least, an exploitable metaphor...
...Army a new emotional anchor. "He liked the Army," Queen says. "I think it kind of gave him a home." One of the members of his platoon in C Company, ex-Corporal William Kern, found Calley entirely ordinary. "There was nothing strange about him," Kern recalls. "He wasn't the best officer in the world. He wasn't the worst, either...
...Mackerras: "He never really knew his craft. He had an absolutely lackadaisical approach to the details, but a strict and passionate approach to what the music was trying to convey." Susskind suggests a reason for the carelessness: "It's as though Janáček figured his stuff wasn't going to be played anyway, so he might just as well write it the way he wanted to. But truth prevails. You can't keep a work of genius down forever...