Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increased public expenditures" for both defense and foreign aid. Russia's superior growth rate and her power-bent use of it, Rostow said, threaten the U.S. on half a dozen fronts, ranging from brush-fire wars to all-out attack, political penetration of underdeveloped areas and "diplomatic blackmail." Worst of all, said Rostow, Russia is creating among neutrals the "psychological image of an ardent competitor closing fast on a front runner who prefers to go down in style rather than make the effort to maintain his status...
Crimson guard Bob Bowditch was probably the worst offender last night, shooting wildly and telegraphing his passes throughout the game. If there were bright spots for the varsity, they were provided by Cuffe, who scored 22 points on 11 of 22 floor attempts, and Greg Loser, a little guard who tallied four field goals in less than 10 minutes. Center Dave Skinner paced Wesleyan with 24 markers...
...Leslie Brown and a selected group of government ministers and relatives, the King presented the testimony of palace servants. Their story: that very night they had caught the King's wife, Queen Damali, and the King's brother, Prince Juko, in the shrubbery of the palace grounds. Worst of all, Prince Juko had been clad only in underpants. The King sternly announced that Queen Damali was to be confined incommunicado to her room for the present, and would later be exiled to the lonely Sese Islands, 30 miles offshore in Lake Victoria. The assembled advisers were not terribly...
...Clint Walker ($1,500 a week), who has already taken a ten-month leave from the studio to skindive for gold, is ready to take another. Wayde Preston ($500 a week) walked off the set of Colt .45, signed up as a partner in an airplane charter service. "Worst of all," he grumbled, "is the weekly insult-the paycheck. Heck, I can make more money laying bricks than acting...
There were some crushing defeats. The 18-51 barrage leveled by Brown is the worst defeat McCurdy can remember. The Bruins, led by Bob Lowe, ran wild against the Crimson, who just managed to tie Cornell for last place. Later, in the fall's climactic encounter, Yale outscored the varsity, 26 to 48 by three-way scoring...