Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defensive lapse on two missed tackles let Dartmouth's outside right Jim Kennedy get to a lose ball. Kennedy fired a perfect shot to the left hand corner which completely beat goalie Finkelstein for the winning margin. Inside right Bob Googins rubbed salt in the wound with a final goal 15 seconds before the game ended...
...Aging President." Between his H-bomb blasts, the candidate kept up his tough-talking attack on the G.O.P., Ike and Dick Nixon. Four years ago, he said, the Republicans promised "not to turn back the clock. They haven't, but they haven't wound it in four years either." Then, on the eve of the President's 66th birthday, Stevenson, 56, yanked Ike's age into the campaign in a manner to take the breath of the most impassioned Nixon critic. Said Adlai in San Diego: Dwight Eisenhower has given up trying to reshape his party...
...moderate Gaitskell. After ten months of leadership (the leader chosen by the party's 277 M.P.s), Gaitskell faced the whole party for the first time. The delegates were cool toward him in the beginning, but warmed to the speech, delivered with confidence and fervor, with which Gaitskell wound up a later debate. The cheers kept on until Gaitskell rose and took a bow-a tribute almost never tendered at Laborite conventions. Raising a hand, and with shining face and vibrant voice, he cried: "Thank you, comrades, we take that as a pledge between us." The conference rose and gave...
...Daily audiences ranged from 23 million to 27 million homes. ¶TV homes watching the Democrats averaged 9 hrs. 39 min. each. For Republicans: 7 hrs. 22 min. The discrepancy is due primarily to the fact that the Democrats used afternoon and evening time for five days; the G.O.P. wound things up in four evenings, only one afternoon. ¶Peak viewing (17.8 million homes) for the Democrats came during the balloting for the presidential nomination and during the acceptance speeches (15.4 million). Republicans grabbed their peak audience (19.2 million homes) on Ike's arrival in San Francisco and during...
...Federal Court in Manhattan's Foley Square had not been so lively since Estes Kefauver interviewed Frank Costello. A House Judiciary subcommittee, holding hearings on monopolistic practices in the broadcasting industry last week, wound up testimony from leading tunesmiths, lyric writers and librettists. Upstaging Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler were Librettists Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II, Dorothy (I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby) Fields and Otto (Roberta) Harbach; Composer Stanley (What a Difference a Day Made) Adams, Occasional Songwriter Billy (Barney Google) Rose. Their statements were all designed to show...