Word: wilford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working under the direction of Wilford L. White of the Small Business Administration, a team of volunteers spent the past three years studying "businessmen in government," their experiences, reactions, difficulties, and the disinterest of the business community in having them serve in Washington...
...only close match was between number two man Perry Driggs and Yale golfer Bob Wilford. Driggs fought to the eighteenth before bowing...
...first, the words that rolled so precisely off the pronouncer's tongue ("All-right-y. Yours is an old spelling-bee favorite, the study of fishes: ik-thee-olo-gee") seemed a cinch. By lunchtime. Mrs. Wilford White, the chief judge, had rung her bell only 16 times to signal the fall of contestants. But after lunch, the pronouncer began to give out words that even he admitted he could not define...
Ornsteen, two down with five to go, won the fourteenth and fifteenth, but lost the next two. He went on to defeat Eli golfer Bob Wilford on the twentieth hole...
...Crimson lineup for today is: Wheeling, Ornstein, Bailey, Klein, Driggs, Steinert, and Iliff. In addition to captain Nisselson, Yale will field seniors Hal Cotter and Tony Delude, juniors Franz Dolp and Tony McCuulough, and sophomores Bob Wilford and John Suisman