Word: wispyness
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As the 100th Game approached, college sportswriters too young to shave knocked out misty-eyed pieces about Charley Brickley, the legendary Harvard dropkicker of the 1912-14 teams, and Albie Booth, the wispy Yale back of 1929-31. It was murmured occasionally during this gentle rain of nostalgia that, although...
"Yes, I have tricks in my pockets. I have things up my sleeve." With these first words from The Glass Menagerie, his Broadway debut in 1945, Tennessee Williams announced his dramatic strategies and asserted his mastery of verbal magic. To the American theater Williams lent a firefly glow through which...
A President abruptly breaking an agreement with Congress and chasing the wispy dream of a constitutional amendment that would magically balance future budgets. Democrats in the House playing irresponsible politics and offering no alternative proposals. New and credible forecasts of astounding federal deficits. A midyear Administration economic report too rosy...
The sky above Cape Canaveral was clear, except for a few wispy clouds. At 10:50 a.m. last Thursday, the launch order was given for the first test-firing of a Pershing II missile. For 17 hopeful seconds, the flight looked perfect. But before the Pershing had climbed two miles...
"They say the movie stars used to live here in the '20s," says Douglas Meltzer, 59, a former aircraft worker and a long time Hollywood resident who is out for a morning stroll. Meltzer's father came to Los Angeles to play violin in the orchestra of the...