Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boast a scatback's breakaway speed. But he has a knack for darting through holes, shifting direction and bouncing off tacklers. He also knows how to make the most of the run-or-pass option play in Coach Mitchell's old-fashioned single wing. "Fortie wouldn't be so hard to stop if you only knew what he was going to do," says one opposing player. "Tell the guy not to feel too bad," says Fortie. "I never know what I'm going to do either. If I see daylight...
...touchdown instead chose to run out the clock: "Why add insult to injury? We've got to play these guys again, and in their own park next time." To Redskin Coach Bill McPeak the insult was already severe enough: "The way that old man cranked his arm-I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it myself...
...essays show Newman as a knowledgeable writer whose diverse curiosities have taken him beyond an interest in the better-known men of science to figures and folios which the Scientific American reader wouldn't otherwise reach. I'm not sure that his mixture of explicit summary and speculative essay is altogether a good thing. Newman's four-volume compilation of mathematical writings The World of Mathematics is a classic editorial feat; Mathematics and the Imagination (which Newman wrote with the late mathematician Edward Kasner) was, on the other hand, an original work that popularized lucidly some nontrivial aspects of mathematics...
Master Elliott Perkins '23 remembers Lodge as "a good strong fella who wouldn't sit around telling about what his father did." Perkins also recalls, "I didn't have to intercede in his behalf with either the police or the Dean...
...worriedly foresaw a cynical deal trading off bases between the U.S. and Russia, which would weaken his own long-range goal to obtain nuclear missiles for West Germany. With Strauss, Adenauer peered at the photographs of the Russian installations in Cuba. Actually, said some knowledgeable Bonn hands, der Alte wouldn't know a missile site from a swimming pool, but he was impressed. In the end. Adenauer gave Kennedy's action his full endorsement in a nationwide TV broadcast. In West Berlin, inured to crisis and calm except for housewives who rushed to stock up on food, Mayor...