Word: wood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wood first contributed a great save that kept the Crimson in the game. Howell eventually picked up the puck in his own end and started to race the length of the rink. At the blue line Howell dropped a short pass to himself past Cornell's Jim Fullerton, son of Brown's hockey coach, and rushed in all alone on Kennedy and scored from about ten feet...
...center Bob Myers flipped the puck off the boards behind the cage to teammate Morgan Holmes. Holmes, from ten feet, fired through Crimson defenseman Dave Grannis and diagonally into the nets. Varetty goalie Gedirey Wood, who was screened by Grannis and never saw the shot, was invincible for the rest of the evening...
After 20 minutes of near-misses, the varsity tied the count on a goal by Harry Howell, who shared the spotlight of the night with Wood...
...union with McCall Corp. will give the 37-year-old Saturday Review a hard-driving new proprietor: West Coast Industrialist (wood, matches, processed food) Norton Simon, 53, who began acquiring control of McCall Corp. in 1954. Simon has promised his new possession editorial independence-a promise that presumably extends to Editor Cousins' numerous extracurricular crusades, most notable of which is his co-chairmanship of SANE, a citizens' group dedicated to the final abolition of nuclear tests. But independence can be a relative thing. Only after Cousins & Co. have finally moved into McCall's spacious quarters...
...often enough, whether the captain at the controls or the traveler in the cabin, is doomed. Fate is more than a fine literary record of Gann's own career as a commercial pilot, reaching back to the days of open-cockpit biplanes "and the strangely pleasant odor of wood and shellacked fabric, of which our airplanes were made." It is a testament to lost friends. Every chapter is darkened with the memory of fatal crashes. The dedication lists 397 "old comrades with wings forever folded...