Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday's game, and Mac Expects to have to juggle his lineup all through the contest in order to keep the team running at full efficiency. Besides the less of al Merck, first-string fullback, he will also have to get along without the services of his starting right wing, Jocko smith, who is sidelined with what the doctors cryptically call an injured...
...DaGrossa, the Crusader coach, learned his football from Dick Harlow when the Crimson mentor was directing Colgate's squad. DaGrossa, who has spoken to almost as many high school assemblies and chamber of commerce dinners as Jimmy Conzleman of the Chicago Cardinals, favors a single-wing offense that is very similar to the formation employed by Harlow...
...Europe we could spread the glad tidings to our flocks. Also we found much interest in those Orthodox dioceses still under the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople. We were asked on our return to Berlin to try to go to Munich, where several dioceses are still under the wing of Constantinople. We were to persuade them to come back under the authority of the Patriarch of Moscow. In order to help us in our work, the Patriarch and Minister Karpov offered to send with us two or three young priests -good persuaders. This offer we declined as politely...
Recently the Air Forces removed all paint from its P-80s. The tiniest chip or crack might endanger the plane by roughening the air flow. In a test flight, according to one group of experts, a gnat squashed against the leading edge of a P-80's wing. It stuck, and behind it a sound wave hammered perilous dimples in the skin...
...women of Lilliput stood a good six inches in their stocking feet. Mounted on speedy rats and armored in the wing cases of beetles, they hunted mice and moles, and caught fish with horsehair. They wrote unsentimental Lilliputian love poems, such...