Word: wings
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There were, of course, other reasons for choosing Benson Secretary of Agriculture. He knew about agriculture on all levels; he was an exceptional nominee in that he was acceptable to both the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmer's Union, the right and left wing of the farm bloc. He was recommended for the job by some very important Republicans: the late Senator Taft, Thomas Dewey and Milton Eisenhower. His appointment was also very advantageous to the Republican Party in the West. The Mormons are heavily concentrated in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Southern California and in most other...
...seen the goal get turned, but fans in Detroit's Olympia Stadium agreed on an explanation: while they were watching the Red Wings organize their attack, Faille had put his shoulder to the net and shoved. "It's a bush-league trick!" stormed Red Wing General Manager Jack Adams. It may well have been. But it saved the game, and National Hockey League President Clarence Campbell had to admit that there is no rule against it. There soon will be, he promised, while French Canadian Goalie Faille still played the bewildered innocent: "Fasten? Unfasten...
...shot from Brown's left wing slipped out of goalie Tom Bagnoli's hands and was put in by another Brown forward...
With ten minutes and an incensed Brown team remaining in the game, Harvard picked up where they had left off in the first quarter. Right wing Ken McIntosh headed a ball across the Brown cage to left inside Tom Bernheim, who deflected it by the large Bruin goal-tender...
...Charles W. (Charlie) Caldwell Jr., 56, Princeton University's canny head football coach since 1945; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. A onetime (class of '25) Tiger gridiron great (fullback on the 1922 "Team of Destiny"), Caldwell stubbornly clung to his modern version of the old-fashioned single-wing formation, brought Old Nassau untied and undefeated elevens in 1950 and 1951, won six Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) championships in six years (1947-52), was voted 1950's ''coach of the year...