Word: winning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which not only gave the questions for the May 13 show (Sample: "What are the names of the Seven Dwarfs?") but also the instructions for painfully spitting out the answers ("Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy, pause-the grouchy one-Grumpy-Doc -pause-the bashful one!"). Snodgrass enjoyed winning so much that when he was instructed to fall before the mighty mind of Hank Bloomgarden (who later went on to win $98,500), he crossed up Twenty One, blurted the correct answer. After that show, Associate Producer Albert Freedman hustled up to him and protested "in tears" that Snodgrass "had thrown...
...getting Outfielder Al Smith to bounce into a double play with the bases loaded in the eighth, fanning three men in the ninth. In the fourth game, he set down the White Sox without a hit in the eighth and ninth, was credited with the 5-4 win. By the sixth game Lawrence Sherry was so eager to pitch that he swaggered in from the bullpen in the fourth inning with unconcealed, cocky cheer. He shut out the White Sox the rest of the way, won the 9-3 game that gave the World Series to the Dodgers...
...civilised man or woman who cannot win some enjoyment from this book," wrote Havelock Ellis about Casanova's Memoirs, "there must be something unwholesome and abnormal-something corrupt at the core." Writing in the Victorian era, Scientist Ellis (Psychology of Sex) idolized Casanova as a free spirit, a man who had the courage to live life fully, and as a shining example of "adjustment"-for Casanova adapted himself so easily to his own desires. Yet there may be more truth in Ellis' exaggerated view than in the more conventional notion expressed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which complains that...
...Crimson football team vaulted into a tie for third place in the Ivy League Saturday, when it staved off a fourth quarter rally by Columbia, pushed over two touchdowns itself, and went on to win, 38 to 22. The Lion threat to repeat Cornell's upset victory of the previous week toughened the lax and complacent Crimson eleven, and irked it into running up the highest Crimson score since the varsity's 60-6 win over Massachusetts...
Without a strong ground game, the Lions didn't have enough power to win, but Dartmouth, with Bill Gundy throwing and Jack Crouthamel running, does. The line must improve its pass rush and the backfield its covering, if the Crimson is to stay in the first division...