Word: yanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomore Steve Owen lost his match by the same score. Yank Heisler, playing behind LoPucki, lost two down. Number 7 man, Tommy Wynne, played a good front nine, but lost his match...
Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood appear as the kind of super soldiers who could have won World War II during a weekend pass. Major Burton is head of a British mission behind enemy lines; Lieut. Eastwood is his Yank second-in-command. Their assignment is to rescue an American general who has got himself imprisoned in a German army fortress high in the Alps. There are two inevitable complications: 1) a dirty turncoat is methodically bumping off the members of the mission, and 2) one of those guys in uniform turns out to be a girl (Mary...
...returning lettermen are captain Bruce Lo Pucki, Yank Heisler, Barney Oldfield, Jack Purdy, Joe Tibbetts, and tom Wynne. LoPucki, a senior with an 8-4 record last year, has a chance to move into the top position vacated by Bo Keefe, who graduated last June...
...Yank Heisler, another strong contender for the top slot, proved to be an excellent match player last year as a sophomore, winning 13 out of 17 matches. Yank will probably be playing higher than his number four position last year. Senior Barney Oldfield finished last season with an 8-5-1 record...
...Saigon, the young Buddhist disciple murmured "I am Tao" as he drew designs from the book of I Ching on the palm of his hand. But could that be a Yank accent? It was indeed. John Steinbeck Jr., 22, son of the late novelist, has dropped out into a dingy Saigon flat in order to follow his yen for Zen. His teacher: Nguyen Thanh Nam, a mystic generally known as the "Coconut Monk," after his habit of meditating perched atop a palm tree in the middle of an island in the Mekong River. Young Steinbeck and his guru have pursued...