Word: whippeting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York department store." Winthrop is first reduced from $2.98 to $1.78 because he proves not to be "colorfast, washable and docile"; then he finds himself out on his ear in the harsh world of Central Park, where he undergoes such painful experiences as being chased by a whippet and overhearing a chat between two humans on how to cook hasenpfeffer. Winthrop chums up with other park animals, and together they create a typical Bemelmans mixture in a world of magic which is entered, naturally and easily, "at 104th Street and Central Park West...
...Bannister was a flop at cross-country, but the first time he tried the mile he turned in a creditable 4:30. A fortnight ago, as a warmup for his second U.S. showing (the first: as a 1949 member of the combined Oxford-Cambridge squad), he reeled off a whippet-fast three-quarters in 2:56.8, just missing (by .2 sec.) the world's fastest three-quarters, run by Sweden's Arne Andersson...
...second half, Dayton was still very much in the game (35-30) when Brigham Young suddenly broke the game wide open. The buster-upper: Roland Minson, 22, a spring-legged six-footer and the smallest regular on the floor. In three minutes, using its famed fingertip passing and its whippet speed, Brigham Young ran up 15 points, nine of them by Jack Rabbit Minson. During this spree, Dayton was so intent on stopping Minson that it scored precisely one point for Dayton. Final score...
Died. William A. Alexander, 60, athletic director and for 25 years head football coach at Georgia Tech; of a heart ailment; in Atlanta. A wily, diagraming tactician, Bill Alexander depended on a polished, whippet-lean squad to bring him 135 victories (95 defeats), five Bowl games, of which Tech won three...